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The Asymmetry refers to the view in population ethics that, while we ought to avoid creating additional bad lives, there is no requirement to create additional good ones. That is, there is an asymmetry between intuitions that (i) creating bad lives is bad but (ii) creating good lives is not good.


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Defend­ing the Pro­cre­ation Asym­me­try with Con­di­tional Interests

MichaelStJules13 Oct 2019 18:49 UTC
34 points
13 comments4 min readEA link

Paper sum­mary: Do not go gen­tle: why the Asym­me­try does not sup­port anti-na­tal­ism (An­dreas Mo­gensen)

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A cri­tique of strong longtermism

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Con­fused about “mak­ing peo­ple happy” vs. “mak­ing happy peo­ple”

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Con­di­tional in­ter­ests, asym­me­tries and EA priorities

MichaelStJules21 Oct 2019 6:13 UTC
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Pop­u­la­tion Ethics Without Ax­iol­ogy: A Framework

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81 points
18 comments26 min readEA link

Teruji Thomas, ‘The Asym­me­try, Uncer­tainty, and the Long Term’

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43 points
6 comments1 min readEA link
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Cri­tique of MacAskill’s “Is It Good to Make Happy Peo­ple?”

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220 points
115 comments8 min readEA link

Linkpost for var­i­ous re­cent es­says on suffer­ing-fo­cused ethics, pri­ori­ties, and more

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87 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
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The asym­me­try, un­cer­tainty, and the long term

Global Priorities Institute30 Sep 2019 13:37 UTC
13 points
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The asym­me­try and the far future

John G. Halstead9 Mar 2017 22:05 UTC
11 points
14 comments6 min readEA link

Do not go gen­tle: why the Asym­me­try does not sup­port anti-natalism

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4 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Crit­i­cal sum­mary of Meacham’s “Per­son-Affect­ing Views and Sat­u­rat­ing Coun­ter­part Re­la­tions”

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55 points
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A longter­mist cri­tique of “The ex­pected value of ex­tinc­tion risk re­duc­tion is pos­i­tive”

Anthony DiGiovanni1 Jul 2021 21:01 UTC
129 points
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some con­cerns with clas­si­cal utilitarianism

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Against Con­di­tional Beneficence

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Plea­sure and suffer­ing are not con­cep­tual opposites

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29 points
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95 points
7 comments2 min readEA link

Suffer­ing-Fo­cused Ethics (SFE) FAQ

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77 points
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Min­i­mal­ist ax­iolo­gies and pos­i­tive lives

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56 points
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60 points
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