Moral philosophy

Core TagLast edit: 29 Jun 2022 10:52 UTC by Lizka

The moral philosophy tag is very wide-ranging, and can be used alongside more specific tags like philosophy of effective altruism, longtermism, and moral patienthood.

[Question] Is it suffering or involuntary suffering that’s bad, and when is it (involuntary) suffering?

MichaelStJules22 Jun 2020 16:41 UTC

11 points

9 comments1 min readEA link

Making decisions when both morally and empirically uncertain

MichaelA2 Jan 2020 7:08 UTC

17 points

4 comments20 min readEA link

Making decisions under moral uncertainty

MichaelA1 Jan 2020 13:02 UTC

43 points

8 comments17 min readEA link

Morality vs related concepts

MichaelA10 Feb 2020 8:02 UTC

18 points

2 comments8 min readEA link

New book — “Suffering-Focused Ethics: Defense and Implications”

Magnus Vinding31 May 2020 9:27 UTC

103 points

20 comments3 min readEA link

Why Realists and Anti-Realists Disagree

Lukas_Gloor5 Jun 2020 7:51 UTC

59 points

28 comments24 min readEA link

Utilitarianism with and without expected utility

Aaron Gertler24 Jul 2020 6:40 UTC

27 points

4 comments4 min readEA link

(davidmccarthy.org)

The ignorance of normative realism bot

Joe_Carlsmith18 Jan 2022 5:18 UTC

28 points

2 comments35 min readEA link

On infinite ethics

Joe_Carlsmith31 Jan 2022 7:17 UTC

87 points

24 comments51 min readEA link

‘Consequentialism’ is being used to mean several different things

Theo Hawking11 Jun 2022 15:43 UTC

32 points

10 comments6 min readEA link

The most important unsolved problems in ethics

William_MacAskill15 Oct 2012 2:28 UTC

13 points

0 comments EA link

Against Irreducible Normativity

Lukas_Gloor9 Jun 2020 14:38 UTC

44 points

22 comments33 min readEA link

Moral circles: Degrees, dimensions, visuals

MichaelA24 Jul 2020 4:04 UTC

71 points

10 comments13 min readEA link

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

Ardenlk5 Jan 2021 2:18 UTC

50 points

31 comments11 min readEA link

Blameworthiness for Avoidable Psychological Harms

Cullen_OKeefe9 Feb 2021 2:46 UTC

38 points

13 comments9 min readEA link

My personal cruxes for focusing on existential risks / longtermism / anything other than just video games

MichaelA13 Apr 2021 5:50 UTC

52 points

28 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] Is impersonal benevolence a virtue?

Xing Shi Cai18 Jul 2021 8:24 UTC

8 points

8 comments1 min readEA link

Avoiding Moral Fads?

Davis_Kingsley3 Apr 2022 21:35 UTC

24 points

5 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] What moral philosophies besides utilitarianism are compatible with effective altruism?

BrownHairedEevee16 Apr 2022 19:53 UTC

19 points

10 comments1 min readEA link

Paper summary: Staking our future: deontic long-termism and the non-identity problem (Andreas Mogensen)

Global Priorities Institute7 Jun 2022 13:14 UTC

25 points

6 comments6 min readEA link

(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Buddhism and Utilitarianism; EA vs EB

Richard Y Chappell23 Jun 2022 17:56 UTC

50 points

14 comments3 min readEA link

(www.utilitarianism.net)

Launching Utilitarianism.net: An Introductory Online Textbook on Utilitarianism

Darius_M9 Mar 2020 17:13 UTC

73 points

27 comments7 min readEA link

Comparisons of Capacity for Welfare and Moral Status Across Species

Jason Schukraft18 May 2020 0:42 UTC

95 points

62 comments59 min readEA link

How to Measure Capacity for Welfare and Moral Status

Jason Schukraft1 Jun 2020 15:01 UTC

66 points

19 comments41 min readEA link

Harsanyi’s simple “proof” of utilitarianism

Ben_West20 Feb 2020 15:27 UTC

50 points

39 comments4 min readEA link

Why the Irreducible Normativity Wager (Mostly) Fails

Lukas_Gloor14 Jun 2020 13:33 UTC

22 points

13 comments10 min readEA link

High stakes instrumentalism and billionaire philanthropy

John G. Halstead19 Jul 2020 19:19 UTC

59 points

10 comments4 min readEA link

Integrity for consequentialists

Paul_Christiano14 Nov 2016 20:56 UTC

102 points

16 comments7 min readEA link

My Meta-Ethics and Possible Implications for EA

jacobpfau4 Aug 2020 1:29 UTC

7 points

20 comments8 min readEA link

(jacobpfau.github.io)

Expected value theory is fanatical, but that’s a good thing

HaydenW21 Sep 2020 8:48 UTC

53 points

20 comments5 min readEA link

The Comparability of Subjective Scales

MichaelPlant30 Nov 2020 16:47 UTC

77 points

9 comments4 min readEA link

On the limits of idealized values

Joe_Carlsmith22 Jun 2021 2:00 UTC

72 points

9 comments35 min readEA link

Cain Killed Abel: A Heuristic Guide to the Three Major Schools of Ethics in the Western Tradition

Mahendra Prasad20 Aug 2021 1:06 UTC

14 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

The Narrowing Circle (Gwern)

Aaron Gertler11 Feb 2019 23:50 UTC

46 points

17 comments EA link

[Question] What are the leading critiques of “longtermism” and related concepts

AlasdairGives30 May 2020 10:54 UTC

40 points

27 comments1 min readEA link

Ex ante prioritarianism and negative-leaning utilitarianism do not override individual interests

MichaelStJules4 Jul 2019 23:56 UTC

10 points

13 comments3 min readEA link

Defending the Procreation Asymmetry with Conditional Interests

MichaelStJules13 Oct 2019 18:49 UTC

32 points

13 comments8 min readEA link

[Question] What are the best arguments for an exclusively hedonistic view of value?

MichaelStJules19 Oct 2019 4:11 UTC

7 points

9 comments1 min readEA link

Conditional interests, asymmetries and EA priorities

MichaelStJules21 Oct 2019 6:13 UTC

22 points

23 comments14 min readEA link

Practical ethics given moral uncertainty

William_MacAskill31 Jan 2012 5:00 UTC

22 points

5 comments EA link

Worldview uncertainty

Ronja_Lutz16 May 2018 14:02 UTC

15 points

7 comments EA link

Expected value under normative uncertainty

G Gordon Worley III8 Jun 2020 15:45 UTC

16 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(philpapers.org)

Complete archive of the Felicifia forum

Louis_Francini30 May 2020 10:14 UTC

103 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

What Is Moral Realism?

Lukas_Gloor22 May 2018 15:49 UTC

69 points

26 comments31 min readEA link

Metaethical Fanaticism (Dialogue)

Lukas_Gloor17 Jun 2020 12:33 UTC

24 points

10 comments15 min readEA link

Alice Redfern: Moral weights in the developing world — IDinsight’s Beneficiary Preferences Project

EA Global29 Jun 2020 14:02 UTC

17 points

0 comments16 min readEA link

(www.youtube.com)

[Question] Is it possible, and if so how, to arrive at ‘strong’ EA conclusions without the use of utilitarian principles?

taylorbressford012 Jul 2020 13:46 UTC

6 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Can you have an egoistic preference about your own birth?

Mati_Roy16 Jul 2020 3:14 UTC

5 points

8 comments1 min readEA link

Principia Qualia: blueprint for a new cause area, consciousness research with an eye toward ethics and x-risk

MikeJohnson9 Dec 2016 5:47 UTC

29 points

50 comments EA link

Utility Cascades

Aaron Gertler29 Jul 2020 7:16 UTC

25 points

3 comments4 min readEA link

(academic.oup.com)

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

richard_ngo3 Aug 2020 9:21 UTC

14 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

EA reading list: population ethics, infinite ethics, anthropic ethics

richard_ngo3 Aug 2020 9:22 UTC

25 points

9 comments1 min readEA link

EA reading list: suffering-focused ethics

richard_ngo3 Aug 2020 9:40 UTC

41 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

Toby Ord: Selected quotations on existential risk

Aaron Gertler6 Aug 2020 17:41 UTC

29 points

0 comments38 min readEA link

(theprecipice.com)

Attempt at understanding the role of moral philosophy in moral progress

alexhill28 Oct 2019 16:32 UTC

32 points

8 comments5 min readEA link

EA reading list: utilitarianism and consciousness

richard_ngo7 Aug 2020 19:32 UTC

17 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

Hi, I’m Luke Muehlhauser. AMA about Open Philanthropy’s new report on consciousness and moral patienthood

lukeprog28 Jun 2017 15:49 UTC

27 points

66 comments EA link

[Question] Is there a clear writeup summarizing the arguments for why deep ecology is wrong?

Linch25 Oct 2019 7:53 UTC

11 points

5 comments1 min readEA link

Descriptive Population Ethics and Its Relevance for Cause Prioritization

David_Althaus3 Apr 2018 13:31 UTC

59 points

9 comments13 min readEA link

It’s Not Hard to Be Morally Excellent; You Just Choose Not To Be

Aaron Gertler24 Aug 2020 6:23 UTC

48 points

12 comments5 min readEA link

(schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com)

Podcast: Sharon Hewitt Rawlette on metaethics and utilitarianism

Gus Docker29 Aug 2020 17:07 UTC

15 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

(anchor.fm)

Act utilitarianism: criterion of rightness vs. decision procedure

Askell18 Jan 2017 23:49 UTC

40 points

6 comments EA link

Life Satisfaction and its Discontents

MichaelPlant25 Sep 2020 7:54 UTC

70 points

22 comments3 min readEA link

Ethical offsetting is antithetical to EA

ClaireZabel5 Jan 2016 17:49 UTC

34 points

78 comments EA link

[Question] Net value of saving a child’s life from a negative utilitarian perspective?

throwaway85529 Oct 2020 8:15 UTC

6 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

Summary of “The Most Good We Can Do or the Best Person We Can Be?”—a Critique of EA

EdoArad28 Nov 2020 7:41 UTC

14 points

3 comments2 min readEA link

[Link] Normative Implications of Reductionism about Personal Identity

poliboni5 Dec 2020 13:54 UTC

9 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

Introduction to the Philosophy of Well-Being

finm7 Dec 2020 12:32 UTC

42 points

19 comments6 min readEA link

Morality as “Coordination” vs “Altruism”

Raemon29 Dec 2020 2:38 UTC

9 points

2 comments2 min readEA link

(www.lesswrong.com)

Shouldn’t it matter to the victim?

Joe_Carlsmith11 Jan 2021 7:14 UTC

22 points

1 comment15 min readEA link

Scope-sensitive ethics: capturing the core intuition motivating utilitarianism

richard_ngo15 Jan 2021 16:22 UTC

118 points

19 comments5 min readEA link

Hilary Greaves: The collectivist critique of the EA movement

Aaron Gertler19 Jan 2021 13:18 UTC

35 points

7 comments1 min readEA link

(users.ox.ac.uk)

The Upper Limit of Value

Davidmanheim27 Jan 2021 14:15 UTC

30 points

6 comments1 min readEA link

Contact with reality

Joe_Carlsmith15 Feb 2021 4:53 UTC

50 points

4 comments21 min readEA link

Alice Crary’s philosophical-institutional critique of EA: “Why one should not be an effective altruist”

ben.smith25 Feb 2021 20:06 UTC

22 points

8 comments2 min readEA link

Layman’s Summary of Resolving Pascallian Decision Problems with Stochastic Dominance

Ben_West12 Mar 2021 3:51 UTC

44 points

11 comments5 min readEA link

Solving the moral cluelessness problem with Bayesian joint probability distributions

ben.smith28 Feb 2021 9:17 UTC

9 points

13 comments4 min readEA link

Wrong by Induction

Ales_Flidr6 Sep 2018 22:00 UTC

20 points

2 comments EA link

Jeff Sebo: A utilitarian case for animal rights

EA Global18 Oct 2019 18:05 UTC

8 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.youtube.com)

The Possibility of an Ongoing Moral Catastrophe (Summary)

Linch2 Aug 2019 21:55 UTC

67 points

11 comments5 min readEA link

(docs.google.com)

A full syllabus on longtermism

jtm5 Mar 2021 22:57 UTC

109 points

13 comments8 min readEA link

Care and demandingness

Joe_Carlsmith8 Mar 2021 6:59 UTC

42 points

2 comments11 min readEA link

Actually possible: thoughts on Utopia

Joe_Carlsmith18 Jan 2021 8:27 UTC

70 points

3 comments13 min readEA link

Tan Zhi Xuan: AI alignment, philosophical pluralism, and the relevance of non-Western philosophy

EA Global21 Nov 2020 8:12 UTC

12 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(www.youtube.com)

Jenny Xiao: Dual moral obligations and international cooperation against global catastrophic risks

EA Global21 Nov 2020 8:12 UTC

9 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.youtube.com)

Hilary Greaves: Doing good together — collectivism vs. coordination

EA Global3 Nov 2017 7:43 UTC

6 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.youtube.com)

Caspar Oesterheld: Multiverse-wide cooperation

EA Global3 Nov 2017 7:43 UTC

9 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.youtube.com)

Jonathan Courtney: Ethical obligations (lightning talk)

EA Global3 Nov 2017 7:43 UTC

6 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.youtube.com)

Ruairí Donnelly: Moral trade

EA Global11 Aug 2017 8:19 UTC

8 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.youtube.com)

Amanda Askell: The moral value of information

EA Global2 Jun 2017 8:48 UTC

13 points

0 comments13 min readEA link

(www.youtube.com)

The importance of how you weigh it

Joe_Carlsmith29 Mar 2021 4:58 UTC

42 points

2 comments12 min readEA link

The Possibility of an Ongoing Moral Catastrophe

EA Handbook7 Feb 2015 1:10 UTC

17 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.semanticscholar.org)

Julia Galef and Matt Yglesias on bioethics and “ethics expertise”

RobBensinger30 Mar 2021 3:06 UTC

23 points

3 comments4 min readEA link

The Alienation Objection to Consequentialism

Calvin_Baker4 May 2020 20:05 UTC

35 points

15 comments13 min readEA link

Giving isn’t demanding*

William_MacAskill25 Nov 2011 5:00 UTC

5 points

3 comments EA link

Dignity as alternative EA priority—request for feedback

tomwein25 Jun 2020 13:50 UTC

29 points

21 comments2 min readEA link

Peter Singer on the 80K podcast

Jon_Behar18 Dec 2019 17:17 UTC

31 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(80000hours.org)

Rhetorical Abusability is a Poor Counterargument

Cullen_OKeefe8 Jan 2022 2:11 UTC

66 points

7 comments5 min readEA link

Avoiding the Repugnant Conclusion is not necessary for population ethics: new many-author collaboration.

deanspears14 Apr 2021 0:48 UTC

114 points

16 comments1 min readEA link

(deanspears.medium.com)

Moral pluralism and longtermism | Sunyshore

BrownHairedEevee17 Apr 2021 0:14 UTC

26 points

0 comments5 min readEA link

(sunyshore.substack.com)

The problem with person-affecting views

Jack Malde5 Aug 2020 18:37 UTC

39 points

21 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] What are the effects of considering that (human) morality emerges from evolutionary and other functional pressures?

acristia28 Feb 2021 19:35 UTC

9 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

A lateral way of thinking about Cause X: barely visible but potentially enormous categories of value

Writer14 Jun 2021 11:43 UTC

23 points

2 comments4 min readEA link

The case for strong longtermism—June 2021 update

Jack Malde21 Jun 2021 21:30 UTC

64 points

13 comments3 min readEA link

(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Shelly Kagan—readings for Ethics and the Future seminar (spring 2021)

james29 Jun 2021 9:59 UTC

91 points

7 comments5 min readEA link

(docs.google.com)

The Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics

jai4 Nov 2016 7:00 UTC

32 points

1 comment5 min readEA link

(blog.jaibot.com)

The problem of possible populations: animal farming, sustainability, extinction and the repugnant conclusion

Stijn6 Jul 2021 13:17 UTC

7 points

9 comments16 min readEA link

EA reading list: EA motivations and psychology

richard_ngo3 Aug 2020 9:24 UTC

28 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Jumping in Front of Bullets vs. Organ Donation

New_EA10 Jul 2021 22:50 UTC

2 points

5 comments1 min readEA link

In search of benevolence (or: what should you get Clippy for Christmas?)

Joe_Carlsmith20 Jul 2021 1:11 UTC

15 points

0 comments33 min readEA link

The Harsanyi-Rawls debate: political philosophy as decision theory under uncertainty

Ramiro1 Aug 2021 14:04 UTC

12 points

3 comments4 min readEA link

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

Pablo5 Nov 2019 20:24 UTC

40 points

5 comments1 min readEA link

(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

[Question] Time-average versus Individual-average Total Utilitarianism

Davidmanheim26 Sep 2021 7:05 UTC

12 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

Slightly advanced decision theory 102: Four reasons not to be a (naive) utility maximizer

kirchner.jan23 Nov 2021 10:47 UTC

16 points

5 comments15 min readEA link

(universalprior.substack.com)

Scott Alexander – Axiology, Morality, Law

Tessa28 Aug 2016 15:00 UTC

9 points

0 comments11 min readEA link

(slatestarcodex.com)

Reasons and Persons: Watch theories eat themselves

Aaron Gertler25 Dec 2021 3:53 UTC

62 points

8 comments15 min readEA link

(dynomight.net)

Philosophy event series introducing EA at the University of Zurich

Dario Citrini4 Jan 2022 12:49 UTC

17 points

0 comments5 min readEA link

Book review of “Mengzi”

anonymous616 Mar 2022 22:58 UTC

17 points

0 comments12 min readEA link

On expected utility, part 1: Skyscrapers and madmen

Joe_Carlsmith16 Mar 2022 21:54 UTC

21 points

1 comment12 min readEA link

On expected utility, part 3: VNM, separability, and more

Joe_Carlsmith22 Mar 2022 3:05 UTC

8 points

0 comments28 min readEA link

What is Intersectionality Theory? What does it mean for EA?

John Bridge27 Mar 2022 20:41 UTC

28 points

42 comments5 min readEA link

The “Moral Uncertainty” Rabbit Hole, Fully Excavated

Lukas_Gloor1 Apr 2022 13:14 UTC

16 points

0 comments34 min readEA link

Emilia Wilson: Universalised critiques of EA (lightning talk)

EA Global3 Nov 2017 7:43 UTC

8 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.youtube.com)

Summary: Evidence, cluelessness and the long term | Hilary Greaves

Vasco Grilo15 Apr 2022 17:22 UTC

4 points

0 comments5 min readEA link

The Effective Altruism Equality and Justice Project

PouyaJafari6 Oct 2017 20:56 UTC

20 points

4 comments EA link

[Question] Who are the leading advocates, and what are the top publications on broad longtermism?

Jordan Arel28 Apr 2022 2:57 UTC

3 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

Virtue signaling is sometimes the best or the only metric we have

Holly_Elmore28 Apr 2022 4:51 UTC

62 points

10 comments5 min readEA link

List of lists of EA-related open philosophy research questions

ChanaMessinger3 May 2022 16:14 UTC

15 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

Just Say No to Utilitarianism

Arjun Panickssery3 Jun 2022 16:58 UTC

−1 points

15 comments1 min readEA link

(arjunpanickssery.substack.com)

The Strange Shortage of Moral Optimizers

Richard Y Chappell7 Jun 2022 15:23 UTC

86 points

26 comments5 min readEA link

(rychappell.substack.com)

Concerns with Difference-Making Risk Aversion

Charlotte17 Jun 2022 13:59 UTC

28 points

0 comments6 min readEA link

The Philanthropist’s Paradox

MichaelPlant24 Jun 2017 10:23 UTC

2 points

15 comments EA link

Person-affecting intuitions can often be money pumped

Rohin Shah7 Jul 2022 12:23 UTC

88 points

70 comments3 min readEA link

Wheeling and dealing: An internal bargaining approach to moral uncertainty

MichaelPlant10 Jul 2022 12:04 UTC

54 points

17 comments23 min readEA link

A philosophical review of Open Philanthropy’s Cause Prioritisation Framework

MichaelPlant15 Jul 2022 8:21 UTC

132 points

10 comments29 min readEA link

(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

Desire theories of welfare and nonhuman animals

MichaelStJules16 Jul 2022 18:52 UTC

20 points

5 comments4 min readEA link

Moral Progress Reading List

LuisMota2 Aug 2022 19:32 UTC

19 points

3 comments2 min readEA link

Consequentialists (in society) should self-modify to have side constraints

Jack R3 Aug 2022 22:47 UTC

58 points

10 comments3 min readEA link

EA is Insufficiently Value Neutral in Practice

G Gordon Worley III4 Aug 2022 20:00 UTC

5 points

10 comments4 min readEA link

The repugnant conclusion is not a problem for the total view

Luca Stocco6 Aug 2022 14:38 UTC

18 points

10 comments7 min readEA link

Survey: do you think infinite ethics is a serious problem?

Hamish Huggard9 Aug 2022 22:09 UTC

8 points

9 comments1 min readEA link

Criticism of altruism

NinaR9 Aug 2022 22:23 UTC

5 points

2 comments2 min readEA link

[Link] “Average utilitarianism implies solipsistic egoism” (Tarsney 2020)

Milan_Griffes29 Apr 2020 20:54 UTC

14 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Vive la Différence? Structural Diversity as a Challenge for Metanormative Theories

G Gordon Worley III26 May 2020 0:45 UTC

17 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(philpapers.org)

The Value of a Life

So8res17 Feb 2015 17:33 UTC

28 points

10 comments EA link

[Question] Why altruism at all?

Singleton12 Jul 2020 22:04 UTC

−2 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

Book Review: Deontology by Jeremy Bentham

ketchupduck12 Aug 2020 13:45 UTC

47 points

10 comments16 min readEA link

Against the Social Discount Rate (Cowen & Parfit) - Weak refutations

Jorgen_Ljones12 Aug 2020 15:06 UTC

29 points

3 comments5 min readEA link

Meta-Preference Utilitarianism

Bob Jacobs5 Feb 2020 19:14 UTC

10 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

Non-Consequentialist Considerations For Cause-Prioritzation Part 1

Parker_Whitfill28 Nov 2018 22:22 UTC

14 points

2 comments EA link

New book: Moral Uncertainty by MacAskill, Ord & Bykvist

frankieaw10 Sep 2020 16:22 UTC

85 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

New 3-hour podcast with Anders Sandberg about Grand Futures

Gus Docker6 Oct 2020 10:47 UTC

21 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

Timeline Utilitarianism

Bob Jacobs9 Oct 2020 20:12 UTC

15 points

12 comments2 min readEA link

some concerns with classical utilitarianism

nil14 Nov 2020 9:29 UTC

28 points

17 comments26 min readEA link

3-hour podcast about the meta-ethics of utilitarianism and much else with philosopher Torbjörn Tännsjö

Gus Docker24 Nov 2020 17:25 UTC

18 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Incompatibility of moral realism and time discounting

wuschel12 Dec 2020 18:47 UTC

16 points

6 comments8 min readEA link

Wholehearted choices and “morality as taxes”

Joe_Carlsmith21 Dec 2020 19:35 UTC

62 points

7 comments4 min readEA link

Tolstoy’s Famine Relief Work in Ryazan & Considering Moral Intuitions

Erich_Grunewald9 Jan 2021 10:07 UTC

6 points

0 comments8 min readEA link

(www.erichgrunewald.com)

What I believe, part 1: Utilitarianism | Sunyshore

BrownHairedEevee10 Jan 2021 17:58 UTC

10 points

1 comment4 min readEA link

(sunyshore.substack.com)

Stuart Russell Human Compatible AI Roundtable with Allan Dafoe, Rob Reich, & Marietje Schaake

Mahendra Prasad11 Feb 2021 7:43 UTC

16 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Bob Jacobs’s Shortform

Bob Jacobs13 Feb 2021 19:35 UTC

3 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

Experientialist Theories of Well-Being

andzuck19 Feb 2021 20:26 UTC

33 points

0 comments11 min readEA link

What consequences?

Milan_Griffes23 Nov 2017 18:27 UTC

29 points

22 comments EA link

“Just take the expected value” – a possible reply to concerns about cluelessness

Milan_Griffes21 Dec 2017 19:37 UTC

14 points

31 comments EA link

How tractable is cluelessness?

Milan_Griffes29 Dec 2017 18:52 UTC

16 points

2 comments EA link

Doing good while clueless

Milan_Griffes15 Feb 2018 5:04 UTC

46 points

8 comments EA link

[3-hour podcast] Michael Huemer on epistemology, metaethics, EA, utilitarianism and infinite ethics

Gus Docker27 Mar 2021 9:04 UTC

30 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

Spears & Budolfson, ‘Repugnant conclusions’

Pablo4 Apr 2021 16:09 UTC

61 points

15 comments1 min readEA link

(doi.org)

We should choose between moral theories based on the scale of the problem

Jakob_J4 Nov 2019 14:34 UTC

28 points

13 comments2 min readEA link

Arguments for moral indefinability

richard_ngo8 Feb 2019 11:09 UTC

33 points

8 comments EA link

(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

Philosophical Critiques of Effective Altruism by Prof Jeff McMahan

Robert_Wiblin3 May 2016 21:05 UTC

43 points

8 comments EA link

Hayden Wilkinson: Doing good in an infinite, chaotic world

EA Global18 Feb 2020 23:29 UTC

33 points

1 comment18 min readEA link

(www.youtube.com)

[Question] Does any thorough discussion of moral parliaments exist?

richard_ngo6 Sep 2019 15:33 UTC

36 points

10 comments1 min readEA link

The despair of normative realism bot

Joe_Carlsmith3 Jan 2021 22:59 UTC

37 points

3 comments18 min readEA link

A proposed adjustment to the astronomical waste argument

Nick_Beckstead27 May 2013 4:00 UTC

41 points

1 comment EA link

A relatively atheoretical perspective on astronomical waste

Nick_Beckstead6 Aug 2014 0:55 UTC

9 points

8 comments EA link

Risky Giving

Tom_Ash13 Jan 2015 15:54 UTC

5 points

4 comments EA link

An inner debate on risk aversion and systemic change

AndrewDoris2 Feb 2021 22:31 UTC

17 points

6 comments8 min readEA link

[Question] How do most utilitarians feel about “replacement” thought experiments?

richard_ngo6 Sep 2019 11:14 UTC

20 points

39 comments1 min readEA link

Tiny Probabilities of Vast Utilities: A Problem for Long-Termism?

kokotajlod8 Nov 2018 10:09 UTC

24 points

17 comments EA link

Tiny Probabilities of Vast Utilities: Defusing the Initial Worry and Steelmanning the Problem

kokotajlod10 Nov 2018 9:12 UTC

27 points

10 comments EA link

Tiny Probabilities of Vast Utilities: Solutions

kokotajlod14 Nov 2018 16:04 UTC

20 points

5 comments EA link

Tiny Probabilities of Vast Utilities: Concluding Arguments

kokotajlod15 Nov 2018 21:47 UTC

25 points

5 comments10 min readEA link

Tiny Probabilities of Vast Utilities: Bibliography and Appendix

kokotajlod20 Nov 2018 17:34 UTC

10 points

0 comments24 min readEA link

Problems of evil

Joe_Carlsmith19 Apr 2021 8:05 UTC

27 points

3 comments17 min readEA link

Ben Grodeck: Cooperating with future generations — an experimental investigation

EA Global21 Feb 2020 15:28 UTC

16 points

0 comments14 min readEA link

(www.youtube.com)

Ajeya Cotra: Implementing cause prioritisation at Open Philanthropy

EA Global3 Nov 2017 7:43 UTC

13 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.youtube.com)

End-Relational Theory of Meta-ethics: A Dialogue

Peter Wildeford28 Jun 2016 20:11 UTC

16 points

6 comments15 min readEA link

Even non-theists should act as if theism is true

slicedonions8 Nov 2018 23:26 UTC

7 points

37 comments EA link

Five Books of Peter Singer which Changed My Life

Xing Shi Cai4 May 2021 8:07 UTC

23 points

4 comments5 min readEA link

May 5th Event: Democracy, Altruism, & the Ethics of Transnational Aid

Mahendra Prasad5 May 2021 5:33 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Moral anti-realists don’t have to bite bullets

Lila27 Dec 2015 16:48 UTC

5 points

9 comments EA link

Some solutions to utilitarian problems

Stijn14 Jul 2019 10:04 UTC

4 points

5 comments1 min readEA link

The Impossibility of a Satisfactory Population Prospect Axiology

elliottthornley12 May 2021 15:35 UTC

36 points

12 comments1 min readEA link

(link.springer.com)

Saving Average Utilitarianism from Tarsney - Self-Indication Assumption cancels solipsistic swamping.

wuschel16 May 2021 13:47 UTC

8 points

12 comments5 min readEA link

Constructive Criticism of Moral Uncertainty (book)

mariushobbhahn4 Jun 2021 6:04 UTC

28 points

3 comments5 min readEA link

Does Moral Philosophy Drive Moral Progress?

AppliedDivinityStudies2 Jul 2021 21:22 UTC

37 points

4 comments4 min readEA link

Lessons from Strangers Drowning by Larissa MacFarquhar

Xing Shi Cai9 Jul 2021 19:35 UTC

11 points

2 comments3 min readEA link

The Future of Humanity & The Methods of Ethics: A discussion of Bostrom, Sidgwick and Scheffler (Thursday 22 July, 6:30pm UK)

peterhartree18 Jul 2021 18:58 UTC

23 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

The need for convergence on an ethical theory

MichaelDello19 Sep 2016 6:40 UTC

5 points

15 comments EA link

Survey-Proposal: Cause-Area Switching

rodeo_flagellum6 Aug 2021 2:23 UTC

18 points

1 comment9 min readEA link

(Video) Why Vegans Are So Annoying

President Red6 Sep 2021 4:11 UTC

4 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

[Link post] Sam Scheffler: Conservatism, Temporal Bias, and Future Generations

peterhartree19 Sep 2021 8:44 UTC

44 points

3 comments24 min readEA link

Meaning, medicine, and merit

Global Priorities Institute31 Aug 2019 13:42 UTC

3 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

The Good, The Bad, and The Noble Conceptions of God: Understanding How Religion Can Affect Understandings of Altruism

Mahendra Prasad24 Sep 2021 2:54 UTC

2 points

3 comments2 min readEA link

What Motivates Unethical Behavior and How Does that Affect our Altruistic Response?

Mahendra Prasad24 Sep 2021 3:01 UTC

1 point

6 comments1 min readEA link

WEIRD morality

imperfectscout7 Nov 2021 5:41 UTC

6 points

3 comments3 min readEA link

Why Save The Drowning Child: Ethics Vs Theory

Raymond D16 Nov 2021 19:06 UTC

2 points

3 comments4 min readEA link

A Gentle Introduction to Long-Term Thinking

Jack Cunningham8 Dec 2021 3:21 UTC

5 points

1 comment11 min readEA link

Arguing for utilitarianism

Omnizoid14 Dec 2021 19:31 UTC

3 points

2 comments64 min readEA link

Morality and constrained maximization, part 2

Joe_Carlsmith12 Jan 2022 1:49 UTC

9 points

0 comments29 min readEA link

Morality and constrained maximization, part 1

Joe_Carlsmith22 Dec 2021 8:53 UTC

13 points

0 comments11 min readEA link

New Publication: Effective Altruism and Religion

dominicroser25 Jan 2022 9:22 UTC

71 points

6 comments1 min readEA link

Moral Uncertainty and Moral Realism Are in Tension

Lukas_Gloor25 Jan 2022 11:07 UTC

39 points

4 comments12 min readEA link

Update on GPI’s activities and plans for 2022

Global Priorities Institute28 Jan 2022 15:39 UTC

36 points

5 comments12 min readEA link

The Life-Goals Framework: How I Reason About Morality as an Anti-Realist

Lukas_Gloor3 Feb 2022 11:40 UTC

43 points

18 comments34 min readEA link

Doubts about Track Record Arguments for Utilitarianism

Erich_Grunewald12 Feb 2022 9:49 UTC

97 points

16 comments11 min readEA link

(www.erichgrunewald.com)

On expected utility, part 2: Why it can be OK to predictably lose

Joe_Carlsmith18 Mar 2022 8:28 UTC

7 points

2 comments16 min readEA link

[Question] What is agency?

Vynn27 Mar 2022 19:28 UTC

0 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

Moral Anti-Realism: Introduction & Summary

Lukas_Gloor2 Apr 2022 14:32 UTC

48 points

1 comment7 min readEA link

Why effective Altruism relies on metaphysical Free Will, and why we should care to research it (if it exists)- Philipp Bienert & Ansgar Kamratowski

Ansgar Kamratowski7 Apr 2022 14:47 UTC

3 points

0 comments12 min readEA link

[Question] What makes a statement a normative statement?

Vynn19 Apr 2022 8:41 UTC

2 points

17 comments1 min readEA link

Summary: The Importance of End-of-Life Welfare | Browning & Veit

Vasco Grilo22 Apr 2022 10:19 UTC

5 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

Thesis Summary and Open Questions: Normative Uncertainty and Information Value

rileyharris27 Apr 2022 8:46 UTC

28 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

Paper summary: The case for strong longtermism (Hilary Greaves and William MacAskill)

Global Priorities Institute29 Apr 2022 15:52 UTC

43 points

27 comments4 min readEA link

(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Paper summary: Moral demands and the far future (Andreas Mogensen)

Global Priorities Institute29 Apr 2022 15:54 UTC

21 points

1 comment5 min readEA link

(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Why do you care?

anonymous18 May 2022 10:44 UTC

12 points

7 comments4 min readEA link

New substack on utilitarian ethics: Good Thoughts

Richard Y Chappell9 May 2022 16:00 UTC

50 points

9 comments1 min readEA link

(rychappell.substack.com)

My Morality

Matt Goldwater15 May 2022 16:35 UTC

11 points

1 comment4 min readEA link

A Problem with Motivation

James Aitchison25 May 2022 8:35 UTC

9 points

2 comments3 min readEA link

Care-Full With Our Next Generation!

DavidXYu31 May 2022 1:12 UTC

2 points

0 comments4 min readEA link

How to dissolve moral cluelessness about donating mosquito nets

ben.smith8 Jun 2022 7:12 UTC

24 points

8 comments12 min readEA link

[Question] How to approach the dilemma between the law of unintended consequences and the consequences of nonaction?

kristin.h20 Jun 2022 2:20 UTC

2 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

Transcript of a talk on The non-identity problem by Derek Parfit at EAGxOxford 2016

james20 Jun 2022 21:34 UTC

27 points

4 comments20 min readEA link

Marginal Cases, On Trial

Devin Kalish22 Jun 2022 20:06 UTC

15 points

0 comments21 min readEA link

(www.thinkingmuchbetter.com)

Moral weights for various species and distributions

Vasco Grilo3 Jul 2022 18:19 UTC

14 points

8 comments3 min readEA link

All moral decisions in life are on a heavy-tailed distribution

Max Görlitz4 Jul 2022 17:09 UTC

40 points

6 comments2 min readEA link

[4] Reasons and Persons: Part Three, Personal Identity (Parfit, 1984)

Will Aldred4 Jul 2022 17:18 UTC

21 points

1 comment2 min readEA link

(oxford.universitypressscholarship.com)

Punching Utilitarians in the Face

AppliedDivinityStudies13 Jul 2022 18:43 UTC

57 points

29 comments5 min readEA link

Making decisions using multiple worldviews

richard_ngo13 Jul 2022 19:15 UTC

37 points

0 comments11 min readEA link

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

tobiasleenaert16 Jul 2022 15:07 UTC

63 points

46 comments1 min readEA link

When Utilitarianism is Actually ✨Fun✨

Hamish Huggard16 Jul 2022 23:25 UTC

58 points

7 comments3 min readEA link

Moral Weights of Animals, Considering Viewpoint Uncertainty

rogersbacon117 Jul 2022 19:52 UTC

16 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.theseedsofscience.org)

A Paradox for Tiny Probabilities and Enormous Values

Global Priorities Institute1 Jul 2021 7:00 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Paper summary: A Paradox for Tiny Probabilities and Enormous Values (Nick Beckstead and Teruji Thomas)

Global Priorities Institute21 Jul 2022 15:23 UTC

42 points

7 comments7 min readEA link

(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

A “Solipsistic” Repugnant Conclusion

Ramiro21 Jul 2022 16:06 UTC

13 points

0 comments6 min readEA link

Reason is meant to serve the Will

Daniel Rau22 Jul 2022 7:23 UTC

3 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

[3] The Subjective Experience of Time: Welfare Implications (Schukraft, 2020)

Will Aldred21 Jul 2022 22:38 UTC

13 points

2 comments2 min readEA link

(static1.squarespace.com)

[Question] What are the ethics of eating carnivorous animals?

George Stiffman22 Jul 2022 18:14 UTC

19 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

Effective Altruism for Muslims

Ahmed Ghoor27 Jul 2022 16:54 UTC

221 points

14 comments6 min readEA link

Moral strategies at different capability levels

richard_ngo27 Jul 2022 20:20 UTC

14 points

1 comment5 min readEA link

(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

Beware ethical systems without repugnant conclusions

Ezra Newman2 Aug 2022 16:47 UTC

10 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

Longtermism, risk, and extinction

Richard Pettigrew4 Aug 2022 15:25 UTC

20 points

7 comments41 min readEA link

Why I Hope (Certain) Hedonic Utilitarians Don’t Control the Long-term Future

Jared_Riggs8 Aug 2022 0:57 UTC

19 points

5 comments13 min readEA link

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