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Wellbeing

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Wellbeing (also called welfare) is what is good for a person, or what makes their life go well or is in a person’s interest. It is generally agreed that all plausible moral views regard wellbeing as having intrinsic value , with some views—welfarist views—holding that nothing but wellbeing is intrinsically valuable.

Utili­tar­i­anism and the re­place­abil­ity of de­sires and attachments

MichaelStJulesJul 27, 2024, 1:57 AM
34 points
13 comments12 min readEA link

Ac­tu­al­ism, asym­me­try and extinction

MichaelStJulesJan 7, 2025, 4:02 PM
24 points
0 comments9 min readEA link

Some im­pli­ca­tions of rad­i­cal empathy

MichaelStJulesJan 7, 2025, 4:10 PM
15 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

Really rad­i­cal empathy

MichaelStJulesJan 6, 2025, 5:46 PM
30 points
3 comments10 min readEA link

Min­i­mal­ist views of wellbeing

Teo AjantaivalJul 15, 2023, 10:18 AM
58 points
5 comments13 min readEA link

Mea­sur­ing Good Better

MichaelPlantOct 14, 2022, 1:36 PM
235 points
19 comments15 min readEA link

Stress—effec­tive ways to re­duce it

Ben WilliamsonDec 21, 2021, 2:50 PM
78 points
22 comments11 min readEA link

Does Eco­nomic Growth Mean­ingfully Im­prove Well-be­ing? An Op­ti­mistic Re-Anal­y­sis of Easter­lin’s Re­search: Founders Pledge

Vadim AlbinskySep 27, 2022, 4:28 PM
258 points
45 comments12 min readEA link

A Con­ver­sa­tion with Daniel Kahneman

Barry GrimesJul 22, 2022, 2:29 PM
29 points
0 comments14 min readEA link

Effec­tive Self-Help—A guide to im­prov­ing your sub­jec­tive wellbeing

Raphaël_PesahMay 15, 2023, 9:14 AM
129 points
7 comments52 min readEA link

How to in­crease EAs pro­duc­tive hours by up to 35%

IngaNov 28, 2023, 2:49 PM
18 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

In­creas­ingly vague in­ter­per­sonal welfare comparisons

MichaelStJulesFeb 1, 2024, 6:12 AM
36 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Floors and Ceilings, Frame­works and Feel­ings: SoGive’s Im­pact Anal­y­sis Toolkit for Eval­u­at­ing StrongMinds

ishaanApr 15, 2023, 9:41 AM
53 points
0 comments20 min readEA link

StrongMinds (4 of 9) - Psy­chother­apy’s im­pact may be shorter lived than pre­vi­ously es­ti­mated

ishaanDec 13, 2023, 4:15 AM
62 points
1 comment24 min readEA link

Vida Plena: Trans­form­ing Men­tal Health in Ecuador—First Year Up­dates and Marginal Fund­ing Op­por­tu­nity

Joy BittnerNov 19, 2023, 2:49 AM
76 points
4 comments9 min readEA link

Why I’m suss on wellbe­ing surveys

Henry Howard🔸Mar 18, 2023, 7:07 AM
9 points
15 comments2 min readEA link

Th­e­ses on Sleep

guzeyFeb 11, 2022, 6:05 PM
52 points
22 comments34 min readEA link

New Global Pri­ori­ties In­sti­tute re­search agendas

Global Priorities InstituteNov 29, 2024, 1:26 PM
60 points
11 comments1 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

What is a neu­tral life like?

JackMApr 16, 2022, 3:57 PM
42 points
10 comments6 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing VIVID: A new EA or­ga­ni­za­tion as­piring to scale effec­tive self-im­prove­ment & reflection

Gidi KadoshOct 19, 2022, 6:19 PM
88 points
15 comments6 min readEA link

Types of sub­jec­tive welfare

MichaelStJulesFeb 2, 2024, 9:56 AM
42 points
0 comments18 min readEA link

Mo­ral Weights ac­cord­ing to EA Orgs

Simon_MJan 8, 2023, 4:46 PM
111 points
15 comments1 min readEA link

Shal­low in­ves­ti­ga­tion: Loneliness

EmFeb 6, 2023, 5:20 PM
152 points
14 comments30 min readEA link

Can we trust wellbe­ing sur­veys? A pi­lot study of com­pa­ra­bil­ity, lin­ear­ity, and neutrality

Conrad SMar 17, 2023, 10:17 AM
73 points
10 comments10 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

New Ar­ti­cles on Utili­tar­i­anism.net: Pop­u­la­tion Ethics and The­o­ries of Well-Being

imp4rtial 🔸Aug 20, 2021, 2:38 PM
22 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Hi Effec­tive Altru­ism com­mu­nity, Hav­ing ab­sorbed in­sights from “80,000 Hours,” a re­source pri­mar­ily tai­lored to the United States, I’m ea­ger to adapt its in­come and hap­piness con­sid­er­a­tions for In­dia. Can you please help me?

Mohit GaurDec 1, 2023, 10:35 AM
15 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Should we pri­or­tize cog­ni­tive sci­ence in EA?

jackchang110Mar 29, 2023, 10:11 AM
7 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Plea­sure and suffer­ing are not con­cep­tual opposites

MichaelStJulesAug 11, 2024, 6:32 PM
32 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Eco­nomics of An­i­mal Welfare: Call for Abstracts

Bob FischerNov 16, 2023, 4:50 PM
86 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Which an­i­mals re­al­ize which types of sub­jec­tive welfare?

MichaelStJulesFeb 27, 2024, 7:31 PM
22 points
0 comments18 min readEA link

A new place to dis­cuss cog­ni­tive sci­ence, ethics and hu­man alignment

Daniel_FriedrichNov 4, 2022, 2:34 PM
9 points
1 comment2 min readEA link
(www.facebook.com)

Sur­vey—Psy­cholog­i­cal Im­pact of Long-Term AI Engagement

Manuela GarcíaSep 17, 2024, 3:58 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Gene Ther­apy for Mood Improvement

Ray AllenJan 11, 2023, 6:19 AM
7 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

LW4EA: Sab­bath hard and go home

JeremyJun 7, 2022, 2:46 AM
10 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

How to In­cu­bate Self-Driven In­di­vi­d­u­als (for Lead­ers and Com­mu­nity Builders)

Per Ivar FriborgAug 5, 2022, 2:36 PM
51 points
4 comments7 min readEA link

Notes on sup­port­ing Hap­pier Lives Institute

Pawel SysiakOct 6, 2022, 1:01 PM
20 points
2 comments6 min readEA link

Money barely in­creases hap­piness (un­less you re­ally value money, and even then not by much)

Dhruv MakwanaFeb 11, 2023, 9:27 PM
23 points
12 comments3 min readEA link
(twitter.com)

Let’s talk about Im­pos­tor syn­drome in AI safety

Igor IvanovSep 22, 2023, 2:06 PM
4 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

An In­ter­view With Kat Woods

SereneDesireeNov 10, 2022, 9:41 AM
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

New Plat­form to In­crease Happiness

Nick_IncreasingHappinessJun 10, 2024, 9:27 AM
13 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

From Vi­sion to Real­ity: Vida Plena’s Pilot Results

Joy BittnerJul 19, 2023, 11:16 AM
94 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Welfare Es­ti­ma­tion 102: Welfare is a Myth

Richard BrunsFeb 10, 2022, 4:44 PM
22 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

About ‘sub­jec­tive’ wellbe­ing and cost-effec­tive­ness anal­y­sis in men­tal health

LondonGalJul 30, 2023, 1:39 PM
74 points
14 comments41 min readEA link

Ar­tifi­cially sen­tient be­ings: Mo­ral, poli­ti­cal, and le­gal issues

Fırat AkovaAug 1, 2023, 5:48 PM
20 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(doi.org)

Bu­gout Bags for Disasters

FinMar 8, 2022, 5:03 PM
10 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Effec­tive Peer Sup­port Net­work in FTX crisis (Up­date)

EmilyNov 14, 2022, 12:09 PM
134 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Global life satis­fac­tion distribution

Vasco Grilo🔸Oct 1, 2022, 3:39 PM
22 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

The Planet of You: A Thought Ex­per­i­ment on Wel­lbe­ing Tradeoffs

NunikJan 13, 2025, 1:39 PM
5 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Why SoGive is pub­lish­ing an in­de­pen­dent eval­u­a­tion of StrongMinds

ishaanMar 17, 2023, 10:46 PM
100 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

[Question] Look­ing for Re­sources/​Video on Well-be­ing Met­ric from Hap­piness Re­search Institute

EsmiJan 23, 2022, 6:15 PM
2 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­tion to the Philos­o­phy of Well-Being

finmDec 7, 2020, 12:32 PM
45 points
22 comments6 min readEA link

[Question] What are the most effec­tive ways to cre­ate hap­piness (rather than avoid­ing suffer­ing)?

Franziska FischerNov 1, 2024, 10:11 PM
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes] Long-term relationships

Open PhilanthropyAug 31, 2022, 7:13 PM
14 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

What’s the effect size of ther­apy? (StrongMinds 3 of 9)

ishaanDec 8, 2023, 8:34 AM
57 points
0 comments52 min readEA link

Let us know how psy­chol­ogy can help in­crease your impact

IngaOct 21, 2022, 10:32 AM
30 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Book Re­view: Oral­ity and Liter­acy: The Tech­nol­o­giz­ing of the Word

Fergus FettesOct 28, 2023, 8:17 PM
7 points
0 comments16 min readEA link

Why Neu­ron Counts Shouldn’t Be Used as Prox­ies for Mo­ral Weight

Adam ShriverNov 28, 2022, 12:07 PM
291 points
45 comments9 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

An ex­per­i­ment for those who think the in­trin­sic value of plea­sure is be­yond doubt

NunikMar 2, 2025, 12:07 PM
7 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Vida Plena’s 2023 Im­pact Re­port: Mea­sur­ing Progress and Look­ing Ahead

Vida PlenaJul 23, 2024, 12:24 PM
69 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Pro­posal for a Form of Con­di­tional Sup­ple­men­tal In­come (CSI) in a Post-Work World

Sean SweeneyJan 31, 2025, 1:00 AM
3 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

More fre­quent so­cial ac­tivity cor­re­lated with longevity

Dave Cortright 🔸Mar 9, 2024, 12:43 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link
(sbgg.org.br)

My Per­spec­tive on Happiness

David HammerleMar 19, 2025, 12:13 AM
1 point
0 comments11 min readEA link

Any­one else not get­ting any­where with med­i­ta­tion?

tobiasleenaertDec 19, 2023, 11:47 AM
29 points
10 comments2 min readEA link

[Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes] Ad­verse Child­hood Experiences

tmadonAug 31, 2022, 7:22 PM
14 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Sym­pa­thec­tomies—The New Lobotomy

handoftheenemyAug 27, 2022, 8:28 AM
38 points
10 comments5 min readEA link

His­tory of the the­ory of well-being

davidhartsoughJun 22, 2022, 8:17 AM
23 points
8 comments23 min readEA link

Bulk­ing in­for­ma­tion ad­di­tion­al­ities in global de­vel­op­ment for medium-term lo­cal prosperity

brb243Apr 11, 2022, 5:52 PM
4 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Wel­lbe­ing al­ign­ment—pro­posal to The Hap­pier Lives In­sti­tute with fo­cus on sys­temic changes

Michal PorwiszDec 29, 2023, 10:23 AM
24 points
4 comments4 min readEA link

We’re search­ing for mean­ing, not hap­piness (et al.)

Joshua ClingoSep 1, 2022, 7:34 AM
19 points
2 comments12 min readEA link

Progress in Qualia

niplavMay 3, 2024, 10:03 AM
15 points
1 comment5 min readEA link

LW4EA: How to Be Happy

JeremyMay 31, 2022, 10:42 PM
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Sleep: effec­tive ways to im­prove it

Ben WilliamsonNov 15, 2021, 2:42 PM
141 points
61 comments12 min readEA link

R&D for Chem­i­cally Im­prov­ing Wel­lbe­ing in Healthy Population

Jonathan GilatAug 28, 2022, 4:59 AM
23 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

Para­dox of Hedonism

Lorenzo BuscicchiSep 18, 2022, 11:46 AM
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(iep.utm.edu)

The­o­ries of Welfare and Welfare Range Estimates

Bob FischerNov 14, 2022, 1:52 PM
91 points
23 comments9 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing Effec­tive Self-Help

Ben WilliamsonJan 6, 2022, 1:11 PM
111 points
18 comments21 min readEA link
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