EA reading list: moral uncertainty, moral cooperation, and values spreading

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Start here:

• Moral uncertainty—towards a solution? (Bostrom, 2009)

• A bargaining-theoretic approach to moral uncertainty (Cotton-Barratt and Greaves, 2019)

• Moral trade (Ord, 2015)

• Against moral advocacy (Paul Christiano)

• Fundamental value differences are not that fundamental (Scott Alexander)

• The enemy of the good (Trammell, 2020)

Further reading:

• Normative uncertainty (MacAskill, 2014)

• Normative uncertainty as a voting problem (MacAskill, 2016)

• Geometric reasons for normalising variance to aggregate preferences (Cotton-Barratt, 2013)

• The possibility of an ongoing moral catastrophe (Williams, 2015)

• Two-Envelopes Problem for Uncertainty about Brain-Size Valuation and Other Moral Questions (Tomasik, 2013)

• Gains from trade through compromise (Tomasik, 2013)

• Values spreading is often more important than extinction risk (Brian Tomasik)

• Effective altruism and free riding

• Coordination isn’t hard (Jessica Taylor)

• On values spreading (Michael Dickens)

• Conflict vs. mistake (Scott Alexander)

• The whole city is centre (Scott Alexander)