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Mo­ral philosophy

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Moral philosophy is discussed in effective altruism for a number of different reasons.

In some cases, discussions about moral philosophy focus on related topics like:

Further reading

Parfit, Derek (1984) Reasons and Persons, Oxford: Clarendon press.

Sidgwick, Henry (1907) The Methods of Ethics, 7th ed., London: Macmillan.

Related entries

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The Pos­si­bil­ity of an On­go­ing Mo­ral Catas­tro­phe (Sum­mary)

LinchAug 2, 2019, 9:55 PM
144 points
17 comments4 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

A philo­soph­i­cal re­view of Open Philan­thropy’s Cause Pri­ori­ti­sa­tion Framework

MichaelPlantJul 15, 2022, 8:21 AM
160 points
11 comments29 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

The prop­erty rights ap­proach to moral uncertainty

Harry R. LloydOct 14, 2022, 4:49 PM
31 points
14 comments2 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

The elephant in the bed­net: the im­por­tance of philos­o­phy when choos­ing be­tween ex­tend­ing and im­prov­ing lives

MichaelPlantNov 18, 2022, 12:09 PM
153 points
40 comments24 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

Wheel­ing and deal­ing: An in­ter­nal bar­gain­ing ap­proach to moral uncertainty

MichaelPlantJul 10, 2022, 12:04 PM
56 points
18 comments23 min readEA link

In­tegrity for consequentialists

Paul_ChristianoNov 14, 2016, 8:56 PM
177 points
18 comments8 min readEA link

Per­son-af­fect­ing in­tu­itions can of­ten be money pumped

Rohin ShahJul 7, 2022, 12:23 PM
94 points
69 comments3 min readEA link

See­ing more whole

Joe_CarlsmithFeb 17, 2023, 5:14 AM
123 points
8 comments26 min readEA link

Why Real­ists and Anti-Real­ists Disagree

Lukas_GloorJun 5, 2020, 7:51 AM
62 points
28 comments24 min readEA link

Mo­ral­ity vs re­lated concepts

MichaelA🔸Feb 10, 2020, 8:02 AM
19 points
2 comments8 min readEA link

Utili­tar­i­anism with and with­out ex­pected utility

Aaron Gertler 🔸Jul 24, 2020, 6:40 AM
27 points
4 comments4 min readEA link
(davidmccarthy.org)

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

Magnus VindingMay 31, 2020, 9:27 AM
105 points
20 comments3 min readEA link

Launch­ing Utili­tar­i­anism.net: An In­tro­duc­tory On­line Text­book on Utilitarianism

imp4rtial 🔸Mar 9, 2020, 5:13 PM
73 points
27 comments7 min readEA link

Mak­ing de­ci­sions when both morally and em­piri­cally uncertain

MichaelA🔸Jan 2, 2020, 7:08 AM
22 points
4 comments20 min readEA link

The ig­no­rance of nor­ma­tive re­al­ism bot

Joe_CarlsmithJan 18, 2022, 5:18 AM
25 points
1 comment35 min readEA link

Model­ling the out­comes of an­i­mal welfare in­ter­ven­tions: One pos­si­ble ap­proach to the trade-offs be­tween sub­jec­tive experiences

Animal AskMay 29, 2024, 9:06 AM
55 points
8 comments39 min readEA link

Mak­ing de­ci­sions un­der moral uncertainty

MichaelA🔸Jan 1, 2020, 1:02 PM
44 points
8 comments17 min readEA link

‘Con­se­quen­tial­ism’ is be­ing used to mean sev­eral differ­ent things

Theo HawkingJun 11, 2022, 3:43 PM
33 points
10 comments6 min readEA link

[Question] Is im­per­sonal benev­olence a virtue?

Xing Shi CaiJul 18, 2021, 8:24 AM
8 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

If Con­trac­tu­al­ism, Then AMF

Bob FischerOct 13, 2023, 6:03 PM
62 points
54 comments24 min readEA link

Rhetor­i­cal Abus­abil­ity is a Poor Counterargument

Cullen 🔸Jan 8, 2022, 2:11 AM
66 points
6 comments5 min readEA link

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

Arden KoehlerJan 5, 2021, 2:18 AM
55 points
30 comments11 min readEA link

Blame­wor­thi­ness for Avoid­able Psy­cholog­i­cal Harms

Cullen 🔸Feb 9, 2021, 2:46 AM
38 points
13 comments9 min readEA link

Avoid­ing Mo­ral Fads?

Davis_KingsleyApr 3, 2022, 9:35 PM
25 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

Mo­ral cir­cles: De­grees, di­men­sions, visuals

MichaelA🔸Jul 24, 2020, 4:04 AM
87 points
10 comments13 min readEA link

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

Global Priorities InstituteJun 7, 2022, 1:14 PM
25 points
6 comments6 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Jus­tice and Global Pri­ori­ties Re­search Read­ing List

Luis Mota FreitasAug 30, 2022, 7:46 PM
35 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Care and demandingness

Joe_CarlsmithMar 8, 2021, 6:59 AM
54 points
2 comments11 min readEA link

Bud­dhism and Utili­tar­i­anism; EA vs EB

Richard Y Chappell🔸Jun 23, 2022, 5:56 PM
54 points
14 comments3 min readEA link
(www.utilitarianism.net)

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

MichaelA🔸Apr 13, 2021, 5:50 AM
55 points
28 comments3 min readEA link

Against Irre­ducible Normativity

Lukas_GloorJun 9, 2020, 2:38 PM
48 points
22 comments33 min readEA link

Scope-sen­si­tive ethics: cap­tur­ing the core in­tu­ition mo­ti­vat­ing utilitarianism

richard_ngoJan 15, 2021, 4:22 PM
141 points
19 comments5 min readEA link

Rea­sons and Per­sons: Watch the­o­ries eat themselves

Aaron Gertler 🔸Dec 25, 2021, 3:53 AM
64 points
7 comments15 min readEA link
(dynomight.net)

The most im­por­tant un­solved prob­lems in ethics

William_MacAskillOct 15, 2012, 2:28 AM
16 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

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

Eevee🔹Apr 16, 2022, 7:53 PM
19 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

Naïve vs Pru­dent Utilitarianism

Richard Y Chappell🔸Nov 11, 2022, 11:53 PM
97 points
42 comments5 min readEA link
(rychappell.substack.com)

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

MichaelStJulesJun 22, 2020, 4:41 PM
11 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

Puz­zles for Everyone

Richard Y Chappell🔸Sep 10, 2022, 2:11 AM
116 points
38 comments5 min readEA link
(rychappell.substack.com)

A Case for Con­scious Sig­nifi­cance—an ap­proach to free will & determinism

Non-zero-sum JamesNov 23, 2024, 6:37 PM
2 points
3 comments6 min readEA link
(nonzerosum.games)

On the limits of ideal­ized values

Joe_CarlsmithJun 22, 2021, 2:00 AM
80 points
9 comments35 min readEA link

The Biggest Prob­lem with Deon­tol­ogy: The Ag­gre­ga­tion Problem

Arjun PanicksseryOct 8, 2022, 3:41 AM
10 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

The Ca­pa­bil­ity Ap­proach to Hu­man Welfare

ryancbriggsJan 13, 2023, 3:15 PM
246 points
28 comments9 min readEA link

Act util­i­tar­i­anism: crite­rion of right­ness vs. de­ci­sion procedure

AskellJan 18, 2017, 11:49 PM
61 points
5 comments4 min readEA link

High stakes in­stru­men­tal­ism and billion­aire philanthropy

John G. HalsteadJul 19, 2020, 7:19 PM
61 points
10 comments4 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­tion to suffer­ing-fo­cused ethics

Center for Reducing SufferingAug 30, 2024, 4:55 PM
56 points
2 comments22 min readEA link

Why the Irre­ducible Nor­ma­tivity Wager (Mostly) Fails

Lukas_GloorJun 14, 2020, 1:33 PM
25 points
13 comments10 min readEA link

Harsanyi’s sim­ple “proof” of utilitarianism

Ben_West🔸Feb 20, 2020, 3:27 PM
47 points
42 comments4 min readEA link

Safe AI and moral AI

William D'AlessandroJun 1, 2023, 9:18 PM
3 points
0 comments11 min readEA link

Against the nor­ma­tive re­al­ist’s wager

Joe_CarlsmithOct 13, 2022, 4:36 PM
27 points
5 comments23 min readEA link

Is the Far Fu­ture Ir­rele­vant for Mo­ral De­ci­sion-Mak­ing?

Tristan DOct 1, 2024, 7:42 AM
35 points
31 comments2 min readEA link
(www.sciencedirect.com)

Non-util­i­tar­ian effec­tive altruism

keir bradwellJan 29, 2023, 6:07 AM
42 points
10 comments17 min readEA link
(keirbradwell.substack.com)

[Question] Is any­one here a philoso­pher or economist work­ing on the in­ter­per­sonal com­par­i­son prob­lem?

Philosophy BearJan 14, 2023, 7:07 AM
18 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

My Meta-Ethics and Pos­si­ble Im­pli­ca­tions for EA

jacobpfauAug 4, 2020, 1:29 AM
7 points
20 comments8 min readEA link
(jacobpfau.github.io)

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

Mahendra PrasadAug 20, 2021, 1:06 AM
15 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Refin­ing My Mo­ral Values Us­ing Steel­man Solitaire

Evan LaForgeFeb 2, 2024, 10:07 AM
19 points
3 comments9 min readEA link

Mini sum­maries of GPI papers

JackMNov 2, 2022, 10:33 PM
97 points
17 comments6 min readEA link

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

HaydenWSep 21, 2020, 8:48 AM
57 points
20 comments5 min readEA link

The Com­pa­ra­bil­ity of Sub­jec­tive Scales

MichaelPlantNov 30, 2020, 4:47 PM
79 points
9 comments4 min readEA link

Va­ri­eties of min­i­mal­ist moral views: Against ab­surd acts

Teo AjantaivalNov 7, 2023, 11:57 AM
50 points
3 comments10 min readEA link

Deon­tol­ogy, the Paral­y­sis Ar­gu­ment and al­tru­is­tic longtermism

William D'AlessandroSep 2, 2022, 3:23 AM
33 points
4 comments14 min readEA link

Once More, Without Feel­ing (An­dreas Mo­gensen)

Global Priorities InstituteJan 21, 2025, 2:53 PM
32 points
1 comment2 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

PhD on Mo­ral Progress—Bibliog­ra­phy Review

Rafael RuizDec 10, 2023, 10:06 AM
125 points
26 comments40 min readEA link

Mo­ral Anti-Real­ism: In­tro­duc­tion & Summary

Lukas_GloorApr 2, 2022, 2:32 PM
52 points
1 comment7 min readEA link

Deep athe­ism and AI risk

Joe_CarlsmithJan 4, 2024, 6:58 PM
65 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

How to Mea­sure Ca­pac­ity for Welfare and Mo­ral Status

Jason SchukraftJun 1, 2020, 3:01 PM
71 points
19 comments41 min readEA link

Com­par­i­sons of Ca­pac­ity for Welfare and Mo­ral Sta­tus Across Species

Jason SchukraftMay 18, 2020, 12:42 AM
102 points
63 comments59 min readEA link

Good Judg­ment with Numbers

Richard Y Chappell🔸Sep 23, 2024, 3:10 PM
62 points
12 comments6 min readEA link
(www.goodthoughts.blog)

Con­se­quen­tial­ism and Cluelessness

Richard Y Chappell🔸Oct 17, 2022, 6:57 PM
30 points
5 comments9 min readEA link
(rychappell.substack.com)

On in­finite ethics

Joe_CarlsmithJan 31, 2022, 7:17 AM
94 points
29 comments51 min readEA link

De­sire the­o­ries of welfare and non­hu­man animals

MichaelStJulesJul 16, 2022, 6:52 PM
20 points
5 comments4 min readEA link

Con­cepts of ex­is­ten­tial catastrophe

Vasco Grilo🔸Apr 15, 2024, 5:16 PM
11 points
1 comment8 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Mo­ral Progress Read­ing List

Luis Mota FreitasAug 2, 2022, 7:32 PM
32 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­tion to the Philos­o­phy of Well-Being

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

It’s OK to kill and eat an­i­mals—but don’t get caught slap­ping one.

Denis Jul 24, 2024, 9:46 PM
91 points
18 comments1 min readEA link

EA is In­suffi­ciently Value Neu­tral in Practice

Gordon Seidoh WorleyAug 4, 2022, 8:00 PM
−3 points
13 comments4 min readEA link

In­ter­gen­er­a­tional equity and in­finite-pop­u­la­tion ethics: a sur­vey by Mar­cus Pi­vato and Marc Fleurbaey

Jobst Heitzig (vodle.it)Mar 14, 2024, 1:02 PM
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(papers.ssrn.com)

Mo­ral ~realism

Owen Cotton-BarrattMar 15, 2024, 3:38 PM
16 points
4 comments5 min readEA link

Con­tra Ap­piah Defend­ing Defend­ing “Cli­mate Villains”

Cullen 🔸Sep 12, 2022, 2:58 PM
27 points
7 comments4 min readEA link

On ex­pected util­ity, part 1: Skyscrap­ers and madmen

Joe_CarlsmithMar 16, 2022, 9:54 PM
22 points
1 comment12 min readEA link

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

lukeprogJun 28, 2017, 3:49 PM
32 points
66 comments1 min readEA link

Defend­ing the Pro­cre­ation Asym­me­try with Con­di­tional Interests

MichaelStJulesOct 13, 2019, 6:49 PM
34 points
13 comments4 min readEA link

EA crit­i­cism con­test: Why I am not an effec­tive altruist

ErikHoelAug 16, 2022, 5:16 PM
13 points
23 comments2 min readEA link
(erikhoel.substack.com)

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

kirchner.janNov 23, 2021, 10:47 AM
16 points
5 comments14 min readEA link
(universalprior.substack.com)

Utili­tar­i­anism and the re­place­abil­ity of de­sires and attachments

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

The Repug­nant Con­clu­sion Isn’t

AppliedDivinityStudiesAug 23, 2022, 8:09 AM
54 points
24 comments2 min readEA link

The case for strong longter­mism—June 2021 update

JackMJun 21, 2021, 9:30 PM
64 points
12 comments3 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

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

RobBensingerMar 30, 2021, 3:06 AM
23 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

Parfit + Singer + Aliens = ?

Maxwell TabarrokOct 12, 2022, 3:50 PM
90 points
23 comments6 min readEA link
(maximumprogress.substack.com)

The Philan­thropist’s Paradox

MichaelPlantJun 24, 2017, 10:23 AM
2 points
15 comments11 min readEA link

Book re­view of “Mengzi”

anonymous6Mar 16, 2022, 10:58 PM
17 points
0 comments12 min readEA link

Con­fi­dence in the premises of the Repug­nant Con­clu­sion—re­sults from a small survey

Vasco Grilo🔸Oct 8, 2022, 9:08 PM
19 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

List of rea­sons to dis­count the welfare of fu­ture generations

freedomandutilityDec 17, 2022, 2:26 PM
5 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Philos­o­phy event se­ries in­tro­duc­ing EA at the Univer­sity of Zurich

Eleos Arete CitriniJan 4, 2022, 12:49 PM
19 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Wrong by Induction

Ales_FlidrSep 6, 2018, 10:00 PM
20 points
2 comments6 min readEA link

The Sig­nifi­cance, Per­sis­tence, Contin­gency Frame­work (William MacAskill, Teruji Thomas and Aron Val­lin­der)

Global Priorities InstituteOct 14, 2022, 9:24 AM
43 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

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

DavidmanheimSep 26, 2021, 7:05 AM
12 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Ac­tu­ally pos­si­ble: thoughts on Utopia

Joe_CarlsmithJan 18, 2021, 8:27 AM
86 points
5 comments13 min readEA link

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

EA GlobalNov 21, 2020, 8:12 AM
19 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

List of lists of EA-re­lated open philos­o­phy re­search questions

ChanaMessingerMay 3, 2022, 4:14 PM
17 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Oth­er­ness and con­trol in the age of AGI

Joe_CarlsmithJan 2, 2024, 6:15 PM
37 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Right­ing past wrongs by re­cov­er­ing past lives via simulation

MaxRaNov 4, 2022, 8:18 AM
28 points
19 comments3 min readEA link

Ques­tions about Value Lock-in, Pa­ter­nal­ism, and Empowerment

Sam BrownNov 16, 2022, 3:33 PM
4 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

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

Vasco Grilo🔸Apr 15, 2022, 5:22 PM
6 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

EA read­ing list: suffer­ing-fo­cused ethics

richard_ngoAug 3, 2020, 9:40 AM
43 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Pod­cast: Sharon He­witt Rawlette on metaethics and utilitarianism

Gus DockerAug 29, 2020, 5:07 PM
16 points
4 comments1 min readEA link
(anchor.fm)

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

MikeJohnsonDec 9, 2016, 5:47 AM
30 points
50 comments5 min readEA link

At­tempt at un­der­stand­ing the role of moral philos­o­phy in moral progress

alexhillOct 28, 2019, 4:32 PM
34 points
8 comments5 min readEA link

The re­pug­nant con­clu­sion is not a prob­lem for the to­tal view

Luca Stocco🔸Aug 6, 2022, 2:38 PM
30 points
11 comments7 min readEA link

Ag­gre­gat­ing Small Risks of Se­ri­ous Harms (Tomi Fran­cis)

Global Priorities InstituteOct 23, 2024, 10:58 AM
14 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

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

Aaron Gertler 🔸Aug 24, 2020, 6:23 AM
48 points
11 comments5 min readEA link
(schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com)

The “Mo­ral Uncer­tainty” Rab­bit Hole, Fully Excavated

Lukas_GloorApr 1, 2022, 1:14 PM
23 points
2 comments34 min readEA link

Deon­tol­ogy and virtue ethics as “effec­tive the­o­ries” of con­se­quen­tial­ist ethics

Jan_KulveitNov 17, 2022, 9:20 AM
55 points
12 comments10 min readEA link

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

AlasdairGivesMay 30, 2020, 10:54 AM
47 points
27 comments1 min readEA link

The stan­dard case for de­lay­ing AI ap­pears to rest on non-util­i­tar­ian assumptions

Matthew_BarnettFeb 11, 2025, 4:04 AM
17 points
4 comments10 min readEA link

Solv­ing the moral clue­less­ness prob­lem with Bayesian joint prob­a­bil­ity distributions

ben.smithFeb 28, 2021, 9:17 AM
11 points
13 comments4 min readEA link

Scott Alexan­der – Ax­iol­ogy, Mo­ral­ity, Law

Tessa A 🔸Aug 28, 2016, 3:00 PM
9 points
0 comments11 min readEA link
(slatestarcodex.com)

Mo­ral plu­ral­ism and longter­mism | Sunyshore

Eevee🔹Apr 17, 2021, 12:14 AM
26 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
(sunyshore.substack.com)

On longter­mism, Bayesi­anism, and the dooms­day argument

iporphyrySep 1, 2022, 12:27 AM
30 points
5 comments13 min readEA link

The Pos­si­bil­ity of an On­go­ing Mo­ral Catastrophe

EA HandbookFeb 7, 2015, 1:10 AM
17 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.semanticscholar.org)

Emilia Wil­son: Univer­sal­ised cri­tiques of EA (light­ning talk)

EA GlobalNov 3, 2017, 7:43 AM
10 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

[Question] What do you think is the prob­a­bil­ity of eth­i­cal he­do­nism be­ing true?

Vasco Grilo🔸Oct 20, 2022, 10:39 AM
18 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Paper sum­mary: The paral­y­sis ar­gu­ment (William MacAskill and An­dreas Mo­gensen)

Global Priorities InstituteDec 16, 2022, 4:12 PM
18 points
3 comments5 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

What Is Mo­ral Real­ism?

Lukas_GloorMay 22, 2018, 3:49 PM
72 points
30 comments31 min readEA link

Peter Singer on the 80K podcast

Jon_BeharDec 18, 2019, 5:17 PM
31 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

Against pop­u­la­tion ethics

jasoncrawfordAug 16, 2022, 5:21 AM
7 points
21 comments3 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

De­sire-Fulfil­ment and Con­scious­ness (An­dreas Mo­gensen)

Global Priorities InstituteOct 29, 2024, 5:00 PM
25 points
1 comment3 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Some im­pli­ca­tions of rad­i­cal empathy

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

Ac­tu­al­ism, asym­me­try and extinction

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

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

jamesJun 29, 2021, 9:59 AM
91 points
7 comments5 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

Sam­ple donor screen­ing guidelines (by the Creative Com­mons org)

Eevee🔹Jan 8, 2025, 11:36 PM
27 points
13 comments6 min readEA link
(creativecommons.org)

Eth­i­cal offset­ting is an­ti­thet­i­cal to EA

ClaireZabelJan 5, 2016, 5:49 PM
43 points
78 comments3 min readEA link

Wor­ld­view uncertainty

Ronja_LutzMay 16, 2018, 2:02 PM
15 points
5 comments8 min readEA link

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

RamiroAug 1, 2021, 2:04 PM
19 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

Em­piri­cal cri­tique of EA from an­other direction

tonzAug 22, 2022, 9:13 AM
2 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

Just Say No to Utili­tar­i­anism

Arjun PanicksseryJun 3, 2022, 4:58 PM
3 points
15 comments1 min readEA link
(arjunpanickssery.substack.com)

De­scrip­tive Pop­u­la­tion Ethics and Its Rele­vance for Cause Prioritization

David_AlthausApr 3, 2018, 1:31 PM
66 points
8 comments13 min readEA link

[Question] Do you re­ject ax­iolog­i­cal he­do­nism, and what ev­i­dence is there for any al­ter­na­tive view?

NunikJan 19, 2025, 3:18 PM
14 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

Tainted dona­tions: a his­tor­i­cal per­spec­tive from Rho­dri Davies

SanjayNov 13, 2022, 4:37 PM
24 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.philanthropisms.com)

Value frag­ility and AI takeover

Joe_CarlsmithAug 5, 2024, 9:28 PM
38 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

A Stranger Pri­or­ity? Topics at the Outer Reaches of Effec­tive Altru­ism (my dis­ser­ta­tion)

Joe_CarlsmithFeb 21, 2023, 5:16 PM
64 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

On nav­i­gat­ing se­ri­ous philo­soph­i­cal con­fu­sion (Joe Car­l­smith on The 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_HoursMay 22, 2023, 12:53 PM
25 points
1 comment12 min readEA link

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

throwaway855Oct 29, 2020, 8:15 AM
6 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

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

Joe_CarlsmithMar 22, 2022, 3:05 AM
9 points
0 comments28 min readEA link

Giv­ing isn’t de­mand­ing*

William_MacAskillNov 25, 2011, 5:00 AM
22 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

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

PabloNov 5, 2019, 8:24 PM
43 points
6 comments1 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

How my com­pas­sion for an­i­mals up­dated my views on cap­i­tal punishment

Aditi BasuJan 24, 2025, 6:42 AM
24 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

EA should con­sider ex­plic­itly re­ject­ing *pure* clas­si­cal to­tal utilitarianism

freedomandutilityNov 12, 2022, 5:52 PM
−13 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Me­taeth­i­cal Fa­nat­i­cism (Dialogue)

Lukas_GloorJun 17, 2020, 12:33 PM
35 points
10 comments15 min readEA link

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

The_Lord's_Servant_280Jul 10, 2021, 10:50 PM
2 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Ex­is­ten­tial risk pes­simism and the time of perils

David ThorstadAug 12, 2022, 2:42 PM
177 points
67 comments20 min readEA link

A Fis­sion Prob­lem for Per­son-Affect­ing Views (Elliott Thorn­ley)

Global Priorities InstituteNov 7, 2024, 3:01 PM
20 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

EA read­ing list: EA mo­ti­va­tions and psychology

richard_ngoAug 3, 2020, 9:24 AM
28 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

The Copen­hagen In­ter­pre­ta­tion of Ethics

jaiNov 4, 2016, 7:00 AM
110 points
2 comments5 min readEA link
(laneless.substack.com)

Utility Cascades

Aaron Gertler 🔸Jul 29, 2020, 7:16 AM
25 points
3 comments4 min readEA link
(academic.oup.com)

Should we be do­ing poli­tics at all? Some (very rough) thoughts

Holly Elmore ⏸️ 🔸Nov 3, 2022, 6:18 PM
58 points
16 comments4 min readEA link

Hilary Greaves: The col­lec­tivist cri­tique of the EA movement

Aaron Gertler 🔸Jan 19, 2021, 1:18 PM
35 points
5 comments1 min readEA link
(users.ox.ac.uk)

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

StijnJul 6, 2021, 1:17 PM
7 points
9 comments16 min readEA link

As EA em­braces more av­enues for change, we must change our message

Jasper MeyerNov 21, 2022, 6:10 AM
12 points
4 comments10 min readEA link

“Alethe­ism” and “Om­nism” as al­ter­na­tives to “Altru­ism”

James_BanksNov 23, 2022, 4:52 AM
2 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Utili­tar­i­anism Meets Egalitarianism

Scott GarrabrantNov 22, 2022, 4:06 AM
26 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

The prob­lem with per­son-af­fect­ing views

JackMAug 5, 2020, 6:37 PM
44 points
22 comments3 min readEA link

Com­mon-sense cases where “hy­po­thet­i­cal fu­ture peo­ple” matter

tlevinAug 12, 2022, 2:05 PM
107 points
21 comments4 min readEA link

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

Ben_West🔸Mar 12, 2021, 3:51 AM
45 points
11 comments5 min readEA link

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

WriterJun 14, 2021, 11:43 AM
23 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

Reflec­tions on Vox’s “How effec­tive al­tru­ism let SBF hap­pen”

Richard Y Chappell🔸Dec 12, 2022, 4:05 PM
144 points
35 comments2 min readEA link

Mo­ral­ity as “Co­or­di­na­tion” vs “Altru­ism”

RaemonDec 29, 2020, 2:38 AM
6 points
2 comments2 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

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

Jordan ArelApr 28, 2022, 2:57 AM
4 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Con­se­quen­tial­ism does not en­dorse fraud­ing-to-give

Jasper MeyerDec 7, 2022, 5:40 PM
20 points
9 comments3 min readEA link

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

deanspearsApr 14, 2021, 12:48 AM
114 points
16 comments1 min readEA link
(deanspears.medium.com)

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

MichaelStJulesJul 4, 2019, 11:56 PM
11 points
13 comments3 min readEA link

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

Mati_RoyJul 16, 2020, 3:14 AM
5 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

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

EA GlobalJun 29, 2020, 2:02 PM
26 points
0 comments16 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Cas­par Oester­held: Mul­ti­verse-wide cooperation

EA GlobalNov 3, 2017, 7:43 AM
12 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Ruairí Don­nelly: Mo­ral trade

EA GlobalAug 11, 2017, 8:19 AM
10 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

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

Joe_CarlsmithJul 20, 2021, 1:11 AM
17 points
1 comment33 min readEA link

Shouldn’t it mat­ter to the vic­tim?

Joe_CarlsmithJan 11, 2021, 7:14 AM
22 points
1 comment15 min readEA link

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

acristiaFeb 28, 2021, 7:35 PM
9 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Good Thoughts (sub­stack) 2022 review

Richard Y Chappell🔸Dec 30, 2022, 4:26 PM
21 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(rychappell.substack.com)

Prac­ti­cal ethics given moral uncertainty

William_MacAskillJan 31, 2012, 5:00 AM
23 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

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

LinchOct 25, 2019, 7:53 AM
11 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

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

HmashAug 9, 2022, 10:09 PM
8 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

[Link] Nor­ma­tive Im­pli­ca­tions of Re­duc­tion­ism about Per­sonal Identity

poliboniDec 5, 2020, 1:54 PM
9 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Ex­pe­rience Machine

Lorenzo BuscicchiSep 18, 2022, 9:05 AM
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(iep.utm.edu)

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

ben.smithFeb 25, 2021, 8:06 PM
21 points
7 comments2 min readEA link

Dig­nity as al­ter­na­tive EA pri­or­ity—re­quest for feedback

tomweinJun 25, 2020, 1:50 PM
29 points
21 comments2 min readEA link

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

EA GlobalNov 21, 2020, 8:12 AM
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

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

MichaelStJulesOct 19, 2019, 4:11 AM
6 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

Tyler Cowen on effec­tive al­tru­ism (De­cem­ber 2022)

peterhartreeJan 13, 2023, 9:39 AM
76 points
11 comments20 min readEA link
(youtu.be)

The Up­per Limit of Value

DavidmanheimJan 27, 2021, 2:15 PM
34 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Why I am happy to re­ject the pos­si­bil­ity of in­finite worlds

Vasco Grilo🔸Dec 25, 2022, 7:51 PM
13 points
42 comments3 min readEA link

Con­di­tional in­ter­ests, asym­me­tries and EA priorities

MichaelStJulesOct 21, 2019, 6:13 AM
22 points
23 comments8 min readEA link

Re­place Neglectedness

Indra Gesink 🔸Jan 16, 2023, 5:42 PM
52 points
4 comments4 min readEA link

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

Jack RAug 3, 2022, 10:47 PM
71 points
12 comments3 min readEA link

What ac­tu­ally is “value-al­ign­ment”?

ConcernedEAsFeb 7, 2023, 4:02 PM
3 points
9 comments5 min readEA link

Maybe longter­mism isn’t for everyone

Eevee🔹Feb 10, 2023, 4:48 PM
39 points
17 comments1 min readEA link

Sav­ing Lives vs Creat­ing Lives

Richard Y Chappell🔸Dec 15, 2022, 12:32 AM
45 points
18 comments5 min readEA link
(rychappell.substack.com)

Avoid­ing the de­mand­ing­ness of to­tal welfarism with rights-based dis­counted welfarism

StijnAug 15, 2022, 8:35 PM
6 points
2 comments10 min readEA link

The Van­u­atu Ini­ti­a­tive, cli­mate liti­ga­tion and the rights of fu­ture generations

RamiroMar 10, 2023, 1:25 PM
20 points
0 comments10 min readEA link
(www.conjur.com.br)

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

Holly Elmore ⏸️ 🔸Apr 28, 2022, 4:51 AM
62 points
11 comments5 min readEA link

Life Satis­fac­tion and its Discontents

MichaelPlantSep 25, 2020, 7:54 AM
71 points
24 comments3 min readEA link

The Strange Shortage of Mo­ral Optimizers

Richard Y Chappell🔸Jun 7, 2022, 3:23 PM
89 points
26 comments5 min readEA link
(rychappell.substack.com)

[CFP] NeurIPS work­shop: AI meets Mo­ral Philos­o­phy and Mo­ral Psychology

jaredlcmSep 4, 2023, 6:21 AM
10 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

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

richard_ngoAug 3, 2020, 9:22 AM
25 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

Con­tact with reality

Joe_CarlsmithFeb 15, 2021, 4:53 AM
47 points
4 comments21 min readEA link

EA is about max­i­miza­tion, and max­i­miza­tion is perilous

Holden KarnofskySep 2, 2022, 5:13 PM
494 points
59 comments7 min readEA link

Hilary Greaves: Do­ing good to­gether — col­lec­tivism vs. coordination

EA GlobalNov 3, 2017, 7:43 AM
7 points
0 comments1 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?

taylorbressford0Jul 12, 2020, 1:46 PM
6 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

How Use­ful is Utili­tar­i­anism?

Richard Y Chappell🔸Sep 8, 2022, 12:01 AM
18 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(rychappell.substack.com)

The im­por­tance of how you weigh it

Joe_CarlsmithMar 29, 2021, 4:58 AM
44 points
2 comments12 min readEA link

The Nar­row­ing Cir­cle (Gw­ern)

Aaron Gertler 🔸Feb 11, 2019, 11:50 PM
52 points
17 comments5 min readEA link

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

EdoAradNov 28, 2020, 7:41 AM
14 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

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

richard_ngoAug 3, 2020, 9:21 AM
15 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Ex­pected value un­der nor­ma­tive uncertainty

Gordon Seidoh WorleyJun 8, 2020, 3:45 PM
16 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(philpapers.org)

Amanda Askell: The moral value of information

EA GlobalJun 2, 2017, 8:48 AM
19 points
0 comments13 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Against longter­mism: a care-cen­tric ap­proach?

Aron POct 2, 2022, 5:00 AM
21 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Im­par­tial­ity is not baked in to Christianity

Luke EureApr 23, 2023, 9:16 AM
32 points
20 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Why is there so lit­tle men­tion of Scan­lon, What We Owe to Each Other, and con­trac­tu­al­ism?

JosephMay 10, 2023, 12:14 AM
15 points
16 comments1 min readEA link

Com­plete archive of the Feli­ci­fia forum

Louis_FranciniMay 30, 2020, 10:14 AM
115 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

[Linkpost] My moral view: Re­duc­ing suffer­ing, ‘how to be’ as fun­da­men­tal to moral­ity, no pos­i­tive value, cons of grand the­ory, and more—By Si­mon Knutsson

Alistair WebsterAug 25, 2023, 12:53 PM
35 points
2 comments2 min readEA link
(centerforreducingsuffering.org)

The Alie­na­tion Ob­jec­tion to Consequentialism

Calvin_BakerMay 4, 2020, 8:05 PM
36 points
15 comments13 min readEA link

A full syl­labus on longtermism

jtmMar 5, 2021, 10:57 PM
110 points
13 comments8 min readEA link

The Com­mon Sense View on Meat Im­plies Some Pretty Rad­i­cal Con­clu­sions

OmnizoidJun 14, 2023, 4:34 AM
87 points
22 comments4 min readEA link

Jonathan Court­ney: Eth­i­cal obli­ga­tions (light­ning talk)

EA GlobalNov 3, 2017, 7:43 AM
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Toby Ord: Selected quo­ta­tions on ex­is­ten­tial risk

Aaron Gertler 🔸Aug 6, 2020, 5:41 PM
32 points
0 comments39 min readEA link
(theprecipice.com)

Philoso­phers speak­ing against the mis­treat­ment of an­i­mals: The Mon­treal Dec­la­ra­tion On An­i­mal Exploitation

FaiOct 5, 2022, 6:55 PM
60 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

EA read­ing list: util­i­tar­i­anism and consciousness

richard_ngoAug 7, 2020, 7:32 PM
17 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

An even deeper atheism

Joe_CarlsmithJan 11, 2024, 5:28 PM
26 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

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

John Bridge 🔸Mar 27, 2022, 8:41 PM
28 points
42 comments5 min readEA link

The Effec­tive Altru­ism Equal­ity and Jus­tice Project

PouyaJafariOct 6, 2017, 8:56 PM
20 points
4 comments10 min readEA link

Robert Noz­ick’s Me­ta­verse Machine

Lorenzo BuscicchiSep 18, 2022, 11:42 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(philosophynow.org)

Mo­ral anti-re­al­ists don’t have to bite bullets

LilaDec 27, 2015, 4:48 PM
7 points
9 comments2 min readEA link

Three tricky bi­ases: hu­man bias, ex­is­tence bias, and happy bias

Steven RoukFeb 2, 2024, 2:20 PM
54 points
0 comments11 min readEA link

Ad­ding Nuance to the Small An­i­mal Re­place­ment Prob­lem: Mo­ral Cir­cle Expansion

Steven RoukOct 28, 2022, 7:27 PM
42 points
1 comment10 min readEA link

The Non-Iden­tity Prob­lem ex­plained col­lo­quially

Alex VellinsDec 27, 2022, 7:22 AM
5 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Heuris­tics for mak­ing the­o­ret­i­cal progress (in philos­o­phy) from Alan Ha­jek (ANU)

aaron_maiSep 29, 2022, 11:24 AM
10 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(citeseerx.ist.psu.edu)

Mind is uncountable

Filip SondejNov 2, 2022, 11:53 AM
25 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

Sor­ti­tion Model of Mo­ral Uncertainty

Bob Jacobs 🔸Oct 4, 2020, 8:58 PM
33 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

What con­se­quences?

Milan GriffesNov 23, 2017, 6:27 PM
31 points
22 comments8 min readEA link

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

kristin.hJun 20, 2022, 2:20 AM
2 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Deon­tol­ogy is not the solution

Peter McLaughlinNov 16, 2022, 2:22 PM
38 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

Wrong les­sons from the FTX catastrophe

burnerNov 14, 2022, 12:39 AM
283 points
20 comments4 min readEA link

SBF’s com­ments on ethics are no sur­prise to virtue ethicists

c.troutDec 1, 2022, 4:21 AM
10 points
31 comments16 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

A Con­sti­tu­tion For The Future

MiguelNov 6, 2022, 2:04 AM
1 point
48 comments2 min readEA link
(www.whitehatstoic.com)

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

Global Priorities InstituteDec 20, 2022, 11:00 AM
21 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

[Linkpost] Can lab-grown brains be­come con­scious?

Jack RAug 28, 2022, 5:44 PM
12 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Book Re­view: Deon­tol­ogy by Jeremy Bentham

ketchupduckAug 12, 2020, 1:45 PM
50 points
10 comments16 min readEA link

Mak­ing de­ci­sions us­ing mul­ti­ple worldviews

richard_ngoJul 13, 2022, 7:15 PM
43 points
0 comments11 min readEA link

Longter­mism, risk, and extinction

Richard PettigrewAug 4, 2022, 3:25 PM
78 points
12 comments41 min readEA link

Ex­treme risk neu­tral­ity isn’t always wrong

Grant DemareeDec 31, 2022, 4:03 AM
12 points
6 comments4 min readEA link

Jeff Sebo: A util­i­tar­ian case for an­i­mal rights

EA GlobalOct 18, 2019, 6:05 PM
26 points
1 comment14 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

I am work­ing on a pro­ject to view sus­tain­abil­ity and welfare in a new evolu­tion­ary light

Sherry Jan 4, 2023, 10:11 PM
7 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Han­dling Mo­ral Uncer­tainty with Aver­age vs. To­tal Utili­tar­i­anism: One Method That Ap­par­ently *Doesn’t* Work (But Seemed Like it Should)

Marcel DJan 5, 2023, 10:18 PM
10 points
0 comments8 min readEA link

On be­ing compromised

technicalitiesJan 5, 2023, 12:56 PM
187 points
46 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What ra­tio­nale puts a limit to the cost of an EA’s (or any­body’s) life?

JuergenJan 6, 2023, 6:59 PM
6 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

EA uni­ver­sity groups are miss­ing out on most of their po­ten­tial

Johan de KockJan 7, 2023, 12:44 PM
52 points
15 comments30 min readEA link

Amer­ica & the Shape of the Far Future

Aidan FitzsimonsJan 9, 2023, 6:03 AM
8 points
1 comment12 min readEA link

In­finite Ethics—Sketch Part 1: Ex­plo­ra­tions with Sur­re­als

Chris LeongJan 9, 2023, 12:44 AM
9 points
5 comments4 min readEA link

Po­ten­tial Fu­ture People

TeddyWJan 8, 2023, 5:20 PM
11 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Part 2/​4: Limi­ta­tions with Cur­rent EA An­i­mal Advocacy

Dhruv MakwanaJan 11, 2023, 1:48 PM
23 points
0 comments11 min readEA link

Zero Utils: why util­ity wants to be additive

Ja3kJan 14, 2023, 4:29 PM
6 points
3 comments8 min readEA link
(ja3k.com)

Don’t Balk at An­i­mal-friendly Results

Bob FischerJan 16, 2023, 11:52 AM
152 points
7 comments14 min readEA link

Marginal ex­is­tence and its rele­vance to pro-na­tal­ism, longter­mism, and the re­pug­nant conclusion

dawsoneliasenJan 23, 2023, 3:24 AM
4 points
2 comments8 min readEA link

‘Evolu­tion­ary de­bunk­ing ar­gu­ments’ about hu­man moral intuitions

Geoffrey MillerJan 27, 2023, 11:44 PM
29 points
24 comments1 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism De­con­fu­sion, Part 2: Causes, Philos­o­phy, and So­cial Con­straints

DavidmanheimFeb 5, 2023, 10:13 AM
44 points
4 comments10 min readEA link

The base level of achieve­ment in life is sim­ply to min­i­mize harm. Noth­ing more.

Dave Cortright 🔸Feb 7, 2023, 3:52 AM
1 point
6 comments3 min readEA link

Re­solv­ing moral un­cer­tainty with randomization

Bob Jacobs 🔸Mar 29, 2023, 10:10 AM
29 points
3 comments10 min readEA link

The Lo­cal­ity Prob­lem: how to bal­ance the need and dan­gers of sub­jec­tivity and its refusal

Markus BredbergFeb 15, 2023, 2:19 AM
2 points
4 comments15 min readEA link

What is so wrong with the “dog­matic” solu­tion to reck­less­ness?

tobycrisford 🔸Feb 11, 2023, 6:29 PM
25 points
31 comments7 min readEA link

Un­der heaven’s eyes: For the dig­nity of consequentialism

Philosophy BearMar 6, 2023, 11:00 PM
30 points
1 comment12 min readEA link
(substack.com)

Why should eth­i­cal anti-re­al­ists do ethics?

Joe_CarlsmithFeb 16, 2023, 4:27 PM
118 points
10 comments27 min readEA link

[Question] Math­e­mat­i­cal mod­els of Ethics

Victor-SBMar 8, 2023, 10:50 AM
6 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Paper sum­mary: Are we liv­ing at the hinge of his­tory? (William MacAskill)

Global Priorities InstituteMar 13, 2023, 6:05 PM
70 points
4 comments5 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Ex­am­in­ing the Trol­ley Prob­lem Through the Doc­trine of the Dou­ble Effect (DDE)

Siya SawhneyJun 14, 2024, 7:00 PM
2 points
1 comment7 min readEA link

AI safety and con­scious­ness re­search: A brainstorm

Daniel_FriedrichMar 15, 2023, 2:33 PM
11 points
1 comment9 min readEA link

David Ed­monds: Derek Parfit, Fu­ture Selves, Para­dox, Philos­o­phy | Podcast

Ben YeohJul 2, 2023, 1:06 PM
11 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(www.thendobetter.com)

Three mis­takes in the moral math­e­mat­ics of ex­is­ten­tial risk (David Thorstad)

Global Priorities InstituteJul 4, 2023, 1:18 PM
48 points
14 comments3 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Yes/​No de­bate #2: Is it OK to eat meat? (Ger­man)

jorgesOct 22, 2023, 2:48 PM
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Altru­ism and Vi­tal­ism Aren’t Fel­low Travelers

Arjun PanicksseryAug 9, 2024, 2:01 AM
30 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(arjunpanickssery.substack.com)

Some solu­tions to in­finite ethics

OmnizoidAug 16, 2023, 2:42 AM
11 points
0 comments23 min readEA link

The God­dess of Every­thing Else—The Animation

WriterJul 13, 2023, 4:26 PM
64 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

The Ul­ti­mate Ar­gu­ment Against Deon­tol­ogy And For Utilitarianism

OmnizoidJul 29, 2023, 9:36 AM
15 points
9 comments8 min readEA link

The harm cas­cade: why helping oth­ers is so hard

StijnJul 27, 2023, 1:54 PM
43 points
1 comment13 min readEA link

Solu­tions to prob­lems with Bayesianism

Bob Jacobs 🔸Nov 4, 2023, 12:15 PM
27 points
2 comments21 min readEA link

[Opz­ionale] La pos­si­bil­ità di una Catas­trofe Mo­rale in atto (Ri­as­sunto)

EA ItalyDec 31, 2022, 4:17 AM
1 point
0 comments5 min readEA link

The philos­o­phy of choos­ing be­tween ex­tend­ing and im­prov­ing lives

JohnWMar 31, 2023, 11:44 PM
29 points
1 comment5 min readEA link
(observablehq.com)

[Question] Chil­dren in Low-In­come Countries

Noah BirnbaumDec 12, 2024, 5:45 PM
2 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Devel­op­ing a Calcu­la­ble Con­science for AI: Equa­tion for Rights Violations

Sean SweeneyDec 12, 2024, 5:50 PM
4 points
1 comment15 min readEA link

Who were The Righ­teous Among the Na­tions?

Carole Bibas-BarkanApr 18, 2023, 4:59 PM
61 points
4 comments2 min readEA link
(yadvashem.org)

Scien­tism vs. people

Roman LeventovApr 18, 2023, 5:52 PM
0 points
0 comments11 min readEA link

Virtue vs Obli­ga­tion (The Ca­plan-Singer De­bate)

Noah TopperMay 9, 2023, 9:20 AM
28 points
4 comments16 min readEA link
(naivebayes.substack.com)

New Book: “Min­i­mal­ist Ax­iolo­gies: Alter­na­tives to ‘Good Minus Bad’ Views of Value”

Teo AjantaivalJul 19, 2024, 1:00 PM
60 points
8 comments5 min readEA link

In defense of the Gap.

Azad EllafiSep 15, 2023, 7:46 PM
3 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

“Char­ity” as a con­fla­tion­ary al­li­ance term

Jan_KulveitDec 13, 2024, 7:53 AM
75 points
4 comments5 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Ori­gin and al­ign­ment of goals, mean­ing, and morality

FalseCogsAug 24, 2023, 2:05 PM
1 point
2 comments35 min readEA link

[Question] Are we con­fi­dent that su­per­in­tel­li­gent ar­tifi­cial in­tel­li­gence dis­em­pow­er­ing hu­mans would be bad?

Vasco Grilo🔸Jun 10, 2023, 9:24 AM
24 points
27 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What do we care about at the end of time?

Alexander Herwix 🔸Sep 22, 2023, 7:59 AM
2 points
14 comments1 min readEA link

The Benev­olent Ruler’s Hand­book (Part 2): Mo­ral­ity Rules

FCCCAug 12, 2023, 2:25 PM
3 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

PhD on Mo­ral Progress—Seven Philo­soph­i­cal Takes and Opinions

Rafael RuizFeb 8, 2024, 3:17 PM
44 points
9 comments20 min readEA link

AI welfare vs. AI rights

Matthew_BarnettFeb 4, 2025, 6:28 PM
33 points
20 comments3 min readEA link

Com­plex­ity of value but not dis­value im­plies more fo­cus on s-risk. Mo­ral un­cer­tainty and prefer­ence util­i­tar­i­anism also do.

ChiFeb 13, 2024, 10:24 PM
95 points
7 comments2 min readEA link

Works in Progress: The Long Jour­ney to Do­ing Good Bet­ter by Dustin Moskovitz [Linkpost]

Nathan YoungFeb 14, 2024, 7:43 PM
119 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(medium.com)

The Greek Philos­o­phy Knowl­edge-Ac­tion Gap

Siya SawhneyJul 22, 2024, 12:06 PM
8 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

#203 – In­terfer­ing with wild na­ture, ac­cept­ing death, and the ori­gin of com­plex civil­i­sa­tion (Peter God­frey-Smith on The 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_HoursOct 4, 2024, 1:00 PM
14 points
0 comments16 min readEA link

Claude 3 claims it’s con­scious, doesn’t want to die or be modified

MikhailSaminMar 4, 2024, 11:05 PM
8 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Sum­mary: Longter­mism, Ag­gre­ga­tion, and Catas­trophic Risk (Emma J. Cur­ran)

Nic Kruus🔸Mar 7, 2024, 2:31 PM
24 points
7 comments7 min readEA link

Dis­cus­sion: Me­dia Mo­ral Misdirection

Siya SawhneyJun 22, 2024, 10:39 AM
7 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Gen­tle, the Other, and Balance

StianMar 11, 2024, 11:36 AM
3 points
1 comment6 min readEA link

Im­par­tial­ist Sen­tien­tism and Ex­is­ten­tial Anx­iety about Mo­ral Cir­cle Explosion

Rafael RuizJun 22, 2024, 7:53 PM
90 points
14 comments26 min readEA link

Is­sues in (Meta) Nor­ma­tive Ethics

Noah BirnbaumFeb 5, 2025, 3:34 AM
14 points
5 comments11 min readEA link
(irrationalitycommunity.substack.com)

Deaf­ness is tangential

CamilleMar 17, 2024, 10:58 PM
6 points
1 comment7 min readEA link

Subgame Pur­rrfec­tion—Guest Writer Jaiveer Singh Ex­plores Subgame-Perfect Nash Equilibrium

Non-zero-sum JamesOct 9, 2024, 12:38 AM
1 point
1 comment4 min readEA link
(nonzerosum.games)

What if do­ing the most good = benev­olent AI takeover and hu­man ex­tinc­tion?

Jordan ArelMar 22, 2024, 7:56 PM
2 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

[Linkpost] Leif We­nar’s The Deaths of Effec­tive Altruism

EarthlingMar 27, 2024, 3:35 PM
46 points
58 comments1 min readEA link
(www.wired.com)

Gra­di­ent Des­cent as an anal­ogy for Do­ing Good

JWS 🔸Oct 11, 2024, 11:12 AM
16 points
1 comment8 min readEA link

How to Ad­dress EA Dilem­mas – What is Miss­ing from EA Values?

alexis schoenlaubOct 13, 2024, 9:33 AM
6 points
4 comments6 min readEA link

Mo­ral relativity

Derik KApr 1, 2024, 7:38 PM
7 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

The $100 Million Dilemma: Hu­man Lives vs. En­dan­gered Species—Which Should We Save?

VeeOct 7, 2024, 8:12 AM
6 points
5 comments14 min readEA link

On the Mo­ral Pa­tiency of Non-Sen­tient Be­ings (Part 1)

Chase CarterJul 4, 2024, 11:41 PM
20 points
8 comments24 min readEA link

Is RP’s Mo­ral Weights Pro­ject too an­i­mal friendly? Four crit­i­cal junctures

NickLaingOct 11, 2024, 12:03 PM
147 points
56 comments5 min readEA link

(Cross­post) Is Effec­tive Altru­ism just a gi­ant meme?

cryptopsyfan69420Oct 5, 2024, 11:33 PM
−18 points
5 comments4 min readEA link

On the Mo­ral Pa­tiency of Non-Sen­tient Be­ings (Part 2)

Chase CarterJul 7, 2024, 10:33 PM
14 points
1 comment21 min readEA link

Dist­in­guish­ing Between Eth­i­cal and De­ci­sion Consequentialism

Siya SawhneyJul 8, 2024, 1:43 PM
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Are we as rigor­ous in ad­dress­ing Utili­tar­i­anism’s the­o­ret­i­cal challenges as we are with its prac­ti­cal im­pli­ca­tions?

SilvanJul 10, 2024, 1:08 PM
15 points
5 comments5 min readEA link

Be­ing nicer than Clippy

Joe_CarlsmithJan 16, 2024, 7:44 PM
25 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

The Po­ten­tial Im­pact of an Ed­u­ca­tional Philos­o­phy Event

Siya SawhneyJul 11, 2024, 4:39 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Sen­si­tive as­sump­tions in longter­mist modeling

Owen MurphySep 18, 2024, 1:39 AM
82 points
12 comments7 min readEA link
(ohmurphy.substack.com)

Sur­vey: bioethi­cists’ views on bioeth­i­cal issues

Leah PiersonMay 21, 2024, 2:53 PM
89 points
46 comments3 min readEA link

[Trig­ger warn­ing: vi­o­lence] An­i­mal vs hu­man welfare: shar­ing some per­sonal reflections

ForumiteOct 10, 2024, 11:49 AM
172 points
8 comments4 min readEA link

My Prob­lem with Ve­ganism and Deontology

sammyboizDec 16, 2024, 8:13 PM
27 points
54 comments2 min readEA link

Grant­mak­ers should give more feedback

Ariel PontesJan 22, 2024, 1:22 PM
78 points
23 comments7 min readEA link

[Question] Ques­tion for longtermism

AhrenbachJan 21, 2024, 7:14 PM
4 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

🇺🇳We can make world lead­ers agree on moral val­ues THIS YEAR. (ac­cord­ing to ex­perts I spoke to)

No longer EA-affiliatedOct 13, 2024, 1:37 AM
−5 points
26 comments7 min readEA link

The Mo­ral Two En­velopes Prob­lem and the Mo­ral Weights Project

Derek ShillerOct 15, 2024, 6:12 PM
91 points
20 comments14 min readEA link

Wild An­i­mal Suffer­ing Is The Worst Thing In The World

OmnizoidFeb 6, 2025, 4:15 PM
98 points
5 comments7 min readEA link

A brief the­ory of why we think things are good or bad

David JohnstonOct 20, 2024, 12:15 PM
5 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

Paus­ing for what?

MountainPathOct 21, 2024, 12:18 PM
6 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Recom­mend­ing How to Be Perfect by Michael Schur

Siya SawhneyOct 17, 2024, 6:37 PM
7 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

QB: How Much do Fu­ture Gen­er­a­tions Mat­ter?

Richard Y Chappell🔸Oct 18, 2024, 3:22 PM
26 points
2 comments5 min readEA link
(www.goodthoughts.blog)

Bar­gain­ing among worldviews

Hayley ClatterbuckOct 18, 2024, 6:32 PM
57 points
5 comments12 min readEA link

Are Or­gan­i­cally Farmed An­i­mals Already Liv­ing a Net-Pos­i­tive Life?

Christoph Hartmann 🔸Oct 16, 2024, 9:08 PM
55 points
20 comments3 min readEA link

Refram­ing the As­sisted Dy­ing De­bate: Could Altru­is­tic As­sisted Dy­ing be an Ac­cept­able Mo­ral Choice for Effec­tive Altru­ists?

Deborah W.A. FoulkesOct 26, 2024, 1:26 PM
−4 points
1 comment6 min readEA link

Value capture

Erich_Grunewald 🔸Oct 26, 2024, 10:46 PM
37 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(jesp.org)

Farmed an­i­mals may have pos­i­tive lives now or in a few decades?

Vasco Grilo🔸Oct 26, 2024, 9:18 AM
24 points
10 comments7 min readEA link

[Question] Ques­tion about deontology

sammyboizDec 19, 2024, 7:47 PM
5 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

GiveWell may have made 1 billion dol­lars of harm­ful grants, and Am­bi­tious Im­pact in­cu­bated 8 harm­ful or­gani­sa­tions via in­creas­ing fac­tory-farm­ing?

Vasco Grilo🔸Dec 22, 2024, 10:19 AM
96 points
108 comments9 min readEA link

The Pain That Is or The Pain That Is Felt?

Jai 🔸Dec 24, 2024, 1:33 AM
15 points
5 comments14 min readEA link

How Much Does Mo­ral­ity Re­quire You To Give?

OmnizoidDec 22, 2024, 7:48 PM
12 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

What would an an­i­mal-friendly yet com­mon sense moral frame­work look like? Re­ject­ing he­do­nism, ac­cept­ing in­com­men­su­ra­bil­ity of values

Engin ArıkanDec 22, 2024, 7:21 PM
19 points
5 comments17 min readEA link

Fu­ture Bias – Does To­mor­row’s Pain Hurt More Than Yes­ter­day’s?

jachym_simkoJan 18, 2025, 1:12 PM
5 points
0 comments10 min readEA link

Mo­ral­ity Is Still Demanding

utilistrutilDec 29, 2024, 12:33 AM
16 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Not a Meat Eater FAQ

Erich_Grunewald 🔸Dec 31, 2024, 1:46 PM
75 points
8 comments37 min readEA link
(www.erichgrunewald.com)

EA over­looks the ‘Why’

Joseph SarvaryJan 3, 2025, 6:47 PM
0 points
2 comments7 min readEA link

Im­pli­ca­tions of an­i­mal “life satis­fac­tion”

VictorWJan 2, 2025, 11:00 AM
9 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Vege­tar­ian or not..?

henkehenkehenkeJan 6, 2025, 12:58 PM
13 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

Really rad­i­cal empathy

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

What About Deon­tol­ogy? Ethics of So­cial Belong­ing and Con­for­mity in Effec­tive Altruism

Maksens DjabaliJan 8, 2025, 2:02 PM
7 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

Pos­si­ble im­por­tance of Effec­tive Altru­ism in the civ­i­liz­ing process

idea21Jan 8, 2025, 12:56 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link

Ought We to Be Do­ing More Than We Are?

Jacob1Jan 9, 2025, 6:11 PM
7 points
1 comment19 min readEA link

The moral ar­gu­ment for giv­ing AIs autonomy

Matthew_BarnettJan 8, 2025, 12:59 AM
31 points
7 comments11 min readEA link

Bet­ter differ­ence-mak­ing views

MichaelStJulesDec 21, 2024, 6:27 PM
31 points
0 comments14 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

The ugly sides of two ap­proaches to charity

Julia_Wise🔸Jan 13, 2025, 4:34 AM
159 points
20 comments5 min readEA link

Inescapably Value-Laden Ex­pe­rience—Can We Make Mo­ral­ity Ra­tion­al­is­able?

Non-zero-sum JamesJan 15, 2025, 12:13 AM
2 points
3 comments2 min readEA link
(nonzerosum.games)

Ethics of Whey Protein: Net Nega­tive or Jus­tifi­able for En­vi­ron­men­tal Ve­gans?

nathan hart-hodgsonJan 12, 2025, 5:22 PM
13 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

How big of a prob­lem is abor­tion?

Russell White🔹Jan 15, 2025, 5:30 AM
42 points
27 comments2 min readEA link

Mo­ral mountaineering

finmJan 18, 2025, 3:42 PM
20 points
5 comments6 min readEA link
(finmoorhouse.substack.com)

An­nounc­ing the Com­pas­sion­ate Fu­ture Sum­mit 2025

Ruth_SeleoJan 21, 2025, 7:15 AM
30 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Both-sidesism—When Fair & Balanced Goes Wrong

Non-zero-sum JamesNov 2, 2024, 3:06 AM
10 points
2 comments6 min readEA link
(nonzerosum.games)

Eth­i­cal Roots of Chi­nese AI

Vasiliy KondyrevNov 5, 2024, 2:07 PM
0 points
0 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

Valu­ing Im­pacts Across Species: A Re­search Agenda

Bob FischerNov 4, 2024, 11:55 AM
45 points
1 comment22 min readEA link

Count­ing Costless Beneficence

Richard Y Chappell🔸Nov 4, 2024, 3:32 PM
12 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(www.goodthoughts.blog)

Re­mem­ber­ing Joseph Rot­blat (born on this day in 1908)

LizkaNov 5, 2024, 12:51 AM
90 points
7 comments9 min readEA link

Cu­mu­la­tive Value and In­stan­ta­neous value

ArthurFJan 24, 2025, 10:49 AM
6 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Time to Think about ASI Con­sti­tu­tions?

ukc10014Jan 27, 2025, 9:28 AM
20 points
0 comments12 min readEA link

[Question] What About Creat­ing an App That Would An­swer Any Ques­tion Re­lated to Suffer­ing?

RobertDaoustJan 25, 2025, 4:16 PM
−3 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

I Have A New Paper Out Ar­gu­ing Against The Asym­me­try And For The Ex­is­tence of Happy Peo­ple Be­ing Very Good

OmnizoidNov 21, 2024, 5:19 PM
7 points
12 comments9 min readEA link

The Welfare of Digi­tal Minds: A Re­search Agenda

Derek ShillerNov 11, 2024, 12:58 PM
53 points
1 comment31 min readEA link

Eth­i­cal Ve­ganism is Wrong

BenquoJan 28, 2025, 3:22 PM
−45 points
16 comments2 min readEA link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

The Light­cone solu­tion to the trans­mit­ter room problem

OGTutzauer🔸Jan 29, 2025, 10:03 AM
9 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

Cap­i­tal­ism and the Very Long Term

NikhilVenkateshJan 29, 2025, 4:12 PM
48 points
16 comments1 min readEA link
(www.degruyter.com)

Re­source Allo­ca­tion: A Re­search Agenda

arvommNov 14, 2024, 3:34 PM
44 points
7 comments33 min readEA link

Flip­ping Out: The Cos­mic Coin­flip Thought Ex­per­i­ment Is Bad Philosophy

Joe RogeroNov 12, 2024, 11:57 PM
12 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

Fac­ing up to the Price on Life

Richard Y Chappell🔸Jan 29, 2025, 5:06 PM
62 points
9 comments3 min readEA link
(www.goodthoughts.blog)

[Question] What is the most effec­tive an­i­mal char­ity among those recom­mended by an­i­mal char­ity eval­u­a­tors?

StevenFeb 6, 2025, 8:14 PM
8 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Re­fus­ing to Quan­tify is Re­fus­ing to Think (about trade-offs)

Richard Y Chappell🔸Nov 18, 2024, 6:03 PM
59 points
9 comments5 min readEA link
(www.goodthoughts.blog)

The Hu­man Biolog­i­cal Ad­van­tage Over AI

William StewartNov 18, 2024, 11:18 AM
−1 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

The Tyranny of Ex­is­ten­tial Risk

Karl FaulksNov 18, 2024, 4:41 PM
4 points
1 comment5 min readEA link

Cost, Not Sacrifice

Joe RogeroNov 20, 2024, 9:32 PM
6 points
2 comments4 min readEA link
(subatomicarticles.com)

Je­sus Among The Utilitarians

emre kaplan🔸Nov 21, 2024, 5:44 PM
10 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(theredstarts.wordpress.com)

Re­plac­ing chicken meat with beef or pork is bet­ter than the reverse

Vasco Grilo🔸Dec 4, 2024, 5:38 PM
48 points
23 comments4 min readEA link
(www.onestepforanimals.org)

Co­op­er­a­tion, Avoidance, and In­differ­ence: Alter­nate Fu­tures for Misal­igned AGI

Kiel Brennan-MarquezDec 10, 2022, 8:32 PM
4 points
1 comment18 min readEA link

Pro-na­tal­ist suc­cess would cause so much an­i­mal suffer­ing it is not even a net-pos­i­tive cause area

ben.smithDec 8, 2024, 6:17 PM
31 points
15 comments4 min readEA link

Timeline Utilitarianism

Bob Jacobs 🔸Oct 9, 2020, 8:12 PM
15 points
11 comments2 min readEA link

Is there more to life than sur­vival and in­come?

brb243Oct 13, 2022, 9:56 PM
15 points
7 comments5 min readEA link

Meta-Prefer­ence Utilitarianism

Bob Jacobs 🔸Feb 5, 2020, 7:14 PM
10 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Maybe Utili­tar­i­anism Is More Use­fully A The­ory For De­cid­ing Between Other Eth­i­cal Theories

Jordan ArelNov 17, 2022, 5:31 PM
6 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Path­ways to vic­tory: How can we end an­i­mal agri­cul­ture?

Animal AskSep 14, 2022, 3:33 PM
91 points
6 comments60 min readEA link

Just Look At The Thing! – How The Science of Con­scious­ness In­forms Ethics

algekalipsoSep 23, 2022, 6:20 AM
75 points
3 comments9 min readEA link

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

Joe_CarlsmithMar 18, 2022, 8:28 AM
8 points
2 comments16 min readEA link

What I be­lieve, part 1: Utili­tar­i­anism | Sunyshore

Eevee🔹Jan 10, 2021, 5:58 PM
10 points
1 comment5 min readEA link
(sunyshore.substack.com)

Hay­den Wilk­in­son: Do­ing good in an in­finite, chaotic world

EA GlobalFeb 18, 2020, 11:29 PM
34 points
1 comment18 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Mo­ral Cat­e­gories and Consequentialism

Peter PorcinoSep 15, 2022, 5:37 PM
3 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

The case for offset­ting meat consumption

Ariel PontesDec 8, 2022, 10:22 AM
12 points
5 comments1 min readEA link
(arielpontes.medium.com)

An in­ner de­bate on risk aver­sion and sys­temic change

AndrewDorisFeb 2, 2021, 10:31 PM
18 points
6 comments9 min readEA link

End-Re­la­tional The­ory of Meta-ethics: A Dialogue

Peter WildefordJun 28, 2016, 8:11 PM
38 points
5 comments16 min readEA link

Busi­ness ethics within the EA framework

BloopNov 30, 2022, 6:31 AM
11 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

May The Fac­tory Farms Burn

OmnizoidDec 25, 2022, 8:48 AM
211 points
27 comments14 min readEA link

Bob Ja­cobs’s Quick takes

Bob Jacobs 🔸Feb 13, 2021, 7:35 PM
3 points
40 comments1 min readEA link

How of­ten does One Per­son suc­ceed?

Maynk02Oct 28, 2022, 7:32 PM
6 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Bernard Willi­ams: Ethics and the limits of impartiality

peterhartreeSep 7, 2022, 11:26 AM
4 points
8 comments6 min readEA link
(notes.pjh.is)

Does Mo­ral Philos­o­phy Drive Mo­ral Progress?

AppliedDivinityStudiesJul 2, 2021, 9:22 PM
38 points
4 comments4 min readEA link

In­com­pat­i­bil­ity of moral re­al­ism and time discounting

wuschelDec 12, 2020, 6:47 PM
16 points
6 comments8 min readEA link

The­o­ries of Welfare and Welfare Range Estimates

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

The Rules of Res­cue—out now!

TheronDec 17, 2022, 9:02 AM
60 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

The de­spair of nor­ma­tive re­al­ism bot

Joe_CarlsmithJan 3, 2021, 10:59 PM
34 points
3 comments18 min readEA link

Against philan­thropic diversification

JackMDec 22, 2022, 1:28 PM
44 points
18 comments3 min readEA link
(ethicaleconomist.substack.com)

My favourite Holden Karnofsky es­says (pre Cold Takes)

DMMFAug 31, 2022, 4:01 PM
20 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Sen­tience In­sti­tute 2022 End of Year Summary

MichaelDelloNov 25, 2022, 12:28 PM
48 points
0 comments7 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

The Im­pos­si­bil­ity of a Satis­fac­tory Pop­u­la­tion Prospect Axiology

EJTMay 12, 2021, 3:35 PM
36 points
12 comments1 min readEA link
(link.springer.com)

Be­ware the “greater good”: FTX and Utilitarianism

angelica_whiteNov 20, 2022, 5:51 AM
−10 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

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

kokotajlodNov 10, 2018, 9:12 AM
35 points
10 comments8 min readEA link

A “Solip­sis­tic” Repug­nant Conclusion

RamiroJul 21, 2022, 4:06 PM
13 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

Non-Con­se­quen­tial­ist Con­sid­er­a­tions For Cause-Pri­oritza­tion Part 1

Parker_WhitfillNov 28, 2018, 10:22 PM
14 points
2 comments15 min readEA link

Is it eth­i­cal to ex­pand nu­clear en­ergy use?

simonfriederichNov 5, 2022, 10:38 AM
12 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] Why al­tru­ism at all?

SingletonJul 12, 2020, 10:04 PM
−2 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Philo­soph­i­cal Cri­tiques of Effec­tive Altru­ism by Prof Jeff McMahan

Robert_WiblinMay 3, 2016, 9:05 PM
50 points
9 comments12 min readEA link

Thread on LT/​ut’s prefer­ence for billions of im­mi­nent deaths

Peter_LaymanSep 14, 2022, 3:44 PM
−16 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(twitter.com)

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

Lukas_GloorFeb 3, 2022, 11:40 AM
48 points
17 comments34 min readEA link

some con­cerns with clas­si­cal utilitarianism

nilNov 14, 2020, 9:29 AM
32 points
17 comments19 min readEA link

Mo­ral Uncer­tainty and Mo­ral Real­ism Are in Tension

Lukas_GloorJan 25, 2022, 11:07 AM
37 points
4 comments12 min readEA link

Sum­mary of ‘Shar­ing the World With Digi­tal Minds’ by Carl Shul­man and Nick Bostrom

David Mathers🔸Oct 7, 2022, 1:36 PM
35 points
1 comment8 min readEA link

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

wuschelMay 16, 2021, 1:47 PM
10 points
13 comments5 min readEA link

On sincerity

Joe_CarlsmithDec 23, 2022, 5:14 PM
46 points
3 comments42 min readEA link

The dis­count rate effec­tively de­ter­mines whether long- or near-ter­mism is the best use of philan­thropic resources

FroolowSep 6, 2022, 2:52 PM
14 points
8 comments6 min readEA link

Ben Grodeck: Co­op­er­at­ing with fu­ture gen­er­a­tions — an ex­per­i­men­tal investigation

EA GlobalFeb 21, 2020, 3:28 PM
17 points
0 comments14 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

New book: Mo­ral Uncer­tainty by MacAskill, Ord & Bykvist

frankieawSep 10, 2020, 4:22 PM
91 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

The need for con­ver­gence on an eth­i­cal theory

MichaelDelloSep 19, 2016, 6:40 AM
5 points
13 comments3 min readEA link

The rea­son­able­ness of spe­cial concerns

jwtAug 29, 2022, 12:10 AM
3 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

The Long Reflec­tion as the Great Stag­na­tion

LarksSep 1, 2022, 8:55 PM
43 points
2 comments8 min readEA link

Ex­is­ten­tial risk miti­ga­tion: What I worry about when there are only bad options

MMMaasDec 19, 2022, 3:30 PM
62 points
3 comments9 min readEA link

Para­dox of Hedonism

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

New sub­stack on util­i­tar­ian ethics: Good Thoughts

Richard Y Chappell🔸May 9, 2022, 4:00 PM
50 points
9 comments1 min readEA link
(rychappell.substack.com)

Bud­dha Was An Effec­tive Altruist

maximizealtruismOct 7, 2022, 11:28 PM
8 points
6 comments6 min readEA link

Against meta-eth­i­cal hedonism

Joe_CarlsmithDec 2, 2022, 12:19 AM
27 points
2 comments35 min readEA link

It’s (not) how you use it

Eleni_ASep 7, 2022, 1:28 PM
6 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Paper sum­mary: The Epistemic Challenge to Longter­mism (Chris­tian Tarsney)

Global Priorities InstituteOct 11, 2022, 11:29 AM
39 points
5 comments4 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Alien Counterfactuals

Charlie_GuthmannOct 17, 2022, 5:33 PM
19 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

On the Differ­ences Between Eco­mod­ernism and Effec­tive Altruism

PeterSlatteryDec 6, 2022, 1:21 AM
38 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(thebreakthrough.org)

[Question] Un­der what con­di­tions should FTX grantees vol­un­tar­ily re­turn their grants?

sawyer🔸Nov 11, 2022, 4:52 PM
52 points
39 comments1 min readEA link

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

richard_ngoSep 6, 2019, 3:33 PM
36 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

Should strong longter­mists re­ally want to min­i­mize ex­is­ten­tial risk?

tobycrisford 🔸Dec 4, 2022, 4:56 PM
38 points
9 comments4 min readEA link

Par­tial Ag­gre­ga­tion’s Utility Monster

Devin KalishOct 7, 2022, 4:22 PM
16 points
0 comments16 min readEA link
(www.thinkingmuchbetter.com)

What We Owe the Fu­ture, Chap­ter 1

William_MacAskillAug 16, 2022, 6:31 PM
40 points
6 comments18 min readEA link
(drive.google.com)

Even non-the­ists should act as if the­ism is true

slicedonionsNov 8, 2018, 11:26 PM
12 points
37 comments4 min readEA link

Con­se­quen­tial­ism as an ex­per­i­men­tal discipline

vandermudeNov 29, 2022, 6:07 AM
9 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

New Publi­ca­tion: Effec­tive Altru­ism and Reli­gion

dominicroserJan 25, 2022, 9:22 AM
74 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

But what are *your* core val­ues?

Eleni_ASep 3, 2022, 1:51 PM
15 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

A rel­a­tively athe­o­ret­i­cal per­spec­tive on as­tro­nom­i­cal waste

Nick_BecksteadAug 6, 2014, 12:55 AM
9 points
8 comments8 min readEA link

WEIRD morality

imperfectscoutNov 7, 2021, 5:41 AM
6 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

Prob­lems of evil

Joe_CarlsmithApr 19, 2021, 10:33 AM
31 points
5 comments18 min readEA link
(joecarlsmith.com)

Get­ting on a differ­ent train: can Effec­tive Altru­ism avoid col­laps­ing into ab­sur­dity?

Peter McLaughlinOct 7, 2022, 10:52 AM
187 points
61 comments18 min readEA link

Ex­pe­ri­en­tial­ist The­o­ries of Well-Being

andzuckFeb 19, 2021, 8:26 PM
34 points
0 comments12 min readEA link

New Guest Es­says on He­donism [Utili­tar­i­anism.net]

Richard Y Chappell🔸Aug 26, 2022, 12:36 AM
39 points
5 comments1 min readEA link
(www.utilitarianism.net)

Don’t leave your finger­prints on the future

So8resOct 8, 2022, 12:35 AM
93 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Care-Full With Our Next Gen­er­a­tion!

DavidXYuMay 31, 2022, 1:12 AM
8 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

Toby Ord’s The Scourge, Reviewed

ColdButtonIssuesAug 30, 2022, 9:01 PM
59 points
25 comments4 min readEA link

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

Mahendra PrasadFeb 11, 2021, 7:43 AM
16 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

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

Gus DockerMar 27, 2021, 9:04 AM
30 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Four Quotes on Prefer­ence Utilitarianism

Kaspar BrandnerOct 6, 2022, 7:06 AM
19 points
14 comments1 min readEA link

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

Vasco Grilo🔸Apr 22, 2022, 10:19 AM
7 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Ar­gu­ing for util­i­tar­i­anism

OmnizoidDec 14, 2021, 7:31 PM
3 points
2 comments64 min readEA link

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

Mahendra PrasadSep 24, 2021, 3:01 AM
1 point
6 comments1 min readEA link

Pro­posal: PhilPapers Sur­vey for EA Community

Charlie_GuthmannOct 29, 2022, 11:04 PM
13 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

For­mal­iz­ing Ex­tinc­tion Risk Re­duc­tion vs. Longtermism

Charlie_GuthmannOct 17, 2022, 3:37 PM
12 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Risky Giving

Tom_AshJan 13, 2015, 3:54 PM
5 points
4 comments7 min readEA link

Mo­ral Weights of An­i­mals, Con­sid­er­ing View­point Uncertainty

rogersbacon1Jul 17, 2022, 7:52 PM
17 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.theseedsofscience.org)

Jane English on Rawls and du­ties to fu­ture generations

William D'AlessandroNov 6, 2022, 2:25 PM
12 points
3 comments6 min readEA link

A pro­posed ad­just­ment to the as­tro­nom­i­cal waste argument

Nick_BecksteadMay 27, 2013, 4:00 AM
43 points
0 comments12 min readEA link

Yes, ly­ing has bad con­se­quences.

strawberry calmNov 11, 2022, 5:27 AM
5 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

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

Jakob_JNov 4, 2019, 2:34 PM
28 points
13 comments2 min readEA link

What we owe the microbiome

TeddyWDec 17, 2022, 4:17 PM
12 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Tiny Prob­a­bil­ities of Vast Utilities: Solutions

kokotajlodNov 14, 2018, 4:04 PM
22 points
5 comments6 min readEA link

Differ­ence, Pro­jec­tion, and Adaptation

YOGNov 10, 2022, 10:46 AM
0 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

We are still in triage

JulianHazellAug 30, 2022, 1:59 PM
43 points
2 comments3 min readEA link
(hazell.substack.com)

Mo­ral weights for var­i­ous species and distributions

Vasco Grilo🔸Jul 3, 2022, 6:19 PM
15 points
10 comments3 min readEA link

Rea­son is meant to serve the Will

Daniel RauJul 22, 2022, 7:23 AM
3 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

The Value of a Life

So8resFeb 17, 2015, 5:33 PM
38 points
11 comments10 min readEA link

Les­sons from Strangers Drown­ing by Larissa MacFarquhar

Xing Shi CaiJul 9, 2021, 7:35 PM
14 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Les­sons from ‘Famine, Affluence, and Mo­ral­ity’ and its re­flec­tion on to­day.

Maynk02Oct 27, 2022, 4:47 PM
11 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Mo­ral­ity and con­strained max­i­miza­tion, part 2

Joe_CarlsmithJan 12, 2022, 1:49 AM
9 points
0 comments29 min readEA link

Spears & Bu­dolf­son, ‘Repug­nant con­clu­sions’

PabloApr 4, 2021, 4:09 PM
60 points
14 comments1 min readEA link
(doi.org)

The Cat­e­gor­i­cal Im­per­a­tive Ob­scures Ethics

Gordon Seidoh WorleyDec 6, 2022, 5:48 PM
9 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

What you pri­ori­tise is mostly moral intuition

JamesÖzDec 24, 2022, 12:06 PM
76 points
8 comments12 min readEA link

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

richard_ngoSep 6, 2019, 11:14 AM
34 points
41 comments1 min readEA link

Whole­hearted choices and “moral­ity as taxes”

Joe_CarlsmithDec 21, 2020, 7:35 PM
85 points
9 comments4 min readEA link

The Seven Days of EA Xmas (a bad first draft)

Patrick LiuDec 10, 2022, 1:53 PM
3 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

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

Mahendra PrasadMay 5, 2021, 5:33 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

New 3-hour pod­cast with An­ders Sand­berg about Grand Futures

Gus DockerOct 6, 2020, 10:47 AM
21 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

A Gen­tle In­tro­duc­tion to Long-Term Thinking

Jack CunninghamDec 8, 2021, 3:21 AM
5 points
1 comment11 min readEA link

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

Gordon Seidoh WorleyMay 26, 2020, 12:45 AM
17 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(philpapers.org)

EA & LW Fo­rums Weekly Sum­mary (5 − 11 Sep 22’)

Zoe WilliamsSep 12, 2022, 11:21 PM
36 points
0 comments13 min readEA link

[Question] If you could 2x the num­ber of fu­ture hu­mans by re­duc­ing the QALYs per per­son by half, would you choose to do it? Why or why not?

Parmest RoyOct 14, 2022, 2:06 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Ajeya Co­tra: Im­ple­ment­ing cause pri­ori­ti­sa­tion at Open Philanthropy

EA GlobalNov 3, 2017, 7:43 AM
14 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

X-risk Miti­ga­tion Does Ac­tu­ally Re­quire Longter­mism

𝕮𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖗𝖆Nov 13, 2022, 7:40 PM
35 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

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

tobiasleenaertJul 16, 2022, 3:07 PM
69 points
47 comments1 min readEA link

Should we dis­count fu­ture peo­ple in pro­por­tion to the prob­a­bil­ity of them not ex­ist­ing?

JosephDec 17, 2022, 2:15 PM
8 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Does this solve Pas­cal’s Mug­gings?

SanjayAug 28, 2022, 2:44 PM
15 points
26 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] De­ci­sion mak­ing un­der model am­bi­guity, moral un­cer­tainty, and other agents with free will?

Jobst Heitzig (vodle.it)Nov 2, 2022, 12:52 PM
16 points
1 comment8 min readEA link

Be­ware eth­i­cal sys­tems with­out re­pug­nant conclusions

Ezra NewmanAug 2, 2022, 4:47 PM
12 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Two Types of Aver­age Utilitarianism

GilSep 4, 2022, 5:15 PM
18 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

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

Global Priorities InstituteJul 21, 2022, 3:23 PM
43 points
7 comments7 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

A cri­tique of strong longtermism

Pablo RosadoAug 28, 2022, 7:33 PM
15 points
11 comments14 min readEA link

Stop Over­re­act­ing re: FTX /​ SBF

MattBallNov 16, 2022, 11:40 PM
52 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Five Books of Peter Singer which Changed My Life

Xing Shi CaiMay 4, 2021, 8:07 AM
23 points
4 comments5 min readEA link

A New­comer’s Cri­tique of EA—Un­der­pri­ori­tiz­ing Sys­tems Change?

Sam BattisNov 12, 2022, 11:04 PM
27 points
10 comments8 min readEA link

Other-cen­tered ethics and Harsanyi’s Ag­gre­ga­tion Theorem

Holden KarnofskyFeb 2, 2022, 3:21 AM
59 points
11 comments72 min readEA link

Will Values and Com­pe­ti­tion De­cou­ple?

intersticeSep 28, 2022, 4:32 PM
6 points
0 comments17 min readEA link

Tiny Prob­a­bil­ities of Vast Utilities: Bibliog­ra­phy and Appendix

kokotajlodNov 20, 2018, 5:34 PM
10 points
0 comments24 min readEA link

Some solu­tions to util­i­tar­ian problems

StijnJul 14, 2019, 10:04 AM
4 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Marginal Cases, On Trial

Devin KalishJun 22, 2022, 8:06 PM
18 points
0 comments21 min readEA link
(www.thinkingmuchbetter.com)

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

Milan GriffesApr 29, 2020, 8:54 PM
14 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Up­date on GPI’s ac­tivi­ties and plans for 2022

Global Priorities InstituteJan 28, 2022, 3:39 PM
36 points
5 comments12 min readEA link

Mo­ral­ity and con­strained max­i­miza­tion, part 1

Joe_CarlsmithDec 22, 2021, 8:53 AM
13 points
0 comments11 min readEA link

Valu­ing lives in­stru­men­tally leads to un­com­fortable conclusions

Karthik TadepalliSep 4, 2022, 9:32 PM
17 points
16 comments1 min readEA link

Fu­ture peo­ple might not ex­ist

Indra Gesink 🔸Nov 30, 2022, 7:17 PM
18 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

The moral prob­lem of offsetting

YatlasNov 15, 2022, 8:02 PM
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

“Do­ing Good Best” isn’t the EA ideal

DavidmanheimSep 16, 2022, 12:06 PM
128 points
17 comments6 min readEA link

Ar­gu­ments for moral indefinability

richard_ngoFeb 8, 2019, 11:09 AM
34 points
8 comments7 min readEA link
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

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

kokotajlodNov 8, 2018, 10:09 AM
30 points
18 comments7 min readEA link

Reflec­tive Equil­ibria and the Hunt for a For­mal­ized Pragmatism

BenjaminCaulfieldJun 7, 2023, 10:55 PM
4 points
1 comment12 min readEA link

A dilemma for Max­i­mize Ex­pected Choice­wor­thi­ness (MEC)

Calvin_BakerSep 1, 2022, 2:46 PM
33 points
7 comments10 min readEA link

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

Global Priorities InstituteApr 29, 2022, 3:54 PM
21 points
1 comment5 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Mo­ral strate­gies at differ­ent ca­pa­bil­ity levels

richard_ngoJul 27, 2022, 8:20 PM
29 points
1 comment5 min readEA link
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

Prac­ti­cal ethics re­quires meta­phys­i­cal Free Will

Astra KamratowskiApr 7, 2022, 2:47 PM
2 points
1 comment13 min readEA link

In favour of com­pas­sion, and against band­wag­ons of outrage

EmrikNov 13, 2022, 12:42 AM
154 points
33 comments2 min readEA link

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

jamesJun 20, 2022, 9:34 PM
29 points
4 comments20 min readEA link

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

Magnus VindingSep 28, 2022, 8:58 AM
87 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
(centerforreducingsuffering.org)

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

Global Priorities InstituteApr 29, 2022, 3:52 PM
43 points
27 comments4 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Aver­sion to Hap­piness Across Cul­tures: A Re­view of Where and Why Peo­ple are Averse to Happiness

timfarkasSep 11, 2022, 1:11 AM
34 points
1 comment2 min readEA link
(link.springer.com)

[Question] What is agency?

VynnMar 27, 2022, 7:28 PM
0 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Tiny Prob­a­bil­ities of Vast Utilities: Con­clud­ing Arguments

kokotajlodNov 15, 2018, 9:47 PM
33 points
6 comments10 min readEA link

[Question] Are there im­por­tant things that aren’t quan­tifi­able?

JosephSep 12, 2022, 11:49 AM
9 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

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

peterhartreeJul 18, 2021, 6:58 PM
23 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Sign of qual­ity of life in GiveWell’s analyses

brb243Oct 16, 2022, 2:54 PM
57 points
19 comments3 min readEA link

(Video) Why Ve­gans Are So Annoying

cryptopsyfan69420Sep 6, 2021, 4:11 AM
4 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

When Utili­tar­i­anism is Ac­tu­ally ✨Fun✨

HmashJul 16, 2022, 11:25 PM
60 points
7 comments3 min readEA link

As­sis­tant-pro­fes­sor-ranked AI ethics philoso­pher job op­por­tu­nity at Can­ter­bury Univer­sity, New Zealand

ben.smithOct 16, 2022, 5:56 PM
27 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.linkedin.com)

[Question] Know­ing the cost of SBF’s fraud, what size dona­tion to effec­tive causes would have made it eth­i­cal? $1B? $5B?

qiaochu_fanNov 12, 2022, 10:48 AM
−25 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

New book: The Tango of Ethics: In­tu­ition, Ra­tion­al­ity and the Preven­tion of Suffering

jonleightonJan 2, 2023, 8:45 AM
114 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

Doubts about Track Record Ar­gu­ments for Utilitarianism

Erich_Grunewald 🔸Feb 12, 2022, 9:49 AM
95 points
17 comments11 min readEA link
(www.erichgrunewald.com)

Ex­pand­ing the Teach­ing of Philosophy

Siya SawhneyJun 10, 2024, 9:27 AM
12 points
1 comment4 min readEA link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

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

Milan GriffesDec 21, 2017, 7:37 PM
19 points
29 comments3 min readEA link

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

Jørgen Ljønes🔸Aug 12, 2020, 3:06 PM
31 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

Bit­ing the Bul­let on Pas­cal’s Mugging

Matthew BarberAug 28, 2022, 3:30 PM
5 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

A Case for Vol­un­tary Abor­tion Reduction

Ariel Simnegar 🔸Dec 20, 2022, 1:23 PM
39 points
150 comments13 min readEA link

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

Gus DockerNov 24, 2020, 5:25 PM
18 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

What Peter Singer Got Wrong (And Where Give Well Could Im­prove)

LiaHOct 14, 2022, 4:15 PM
4 points
3 comments6 min readEA link

A Case Against Strong Longtermism

A. WolffSep 2, 2022, 4:40 PM
10 points
4 comments39 min readEA link

Sur­vey-Pro­posal: Cause-Area Switching

QubitSwarm99Aug 6, 2021, 2:23 AM
18 points
1 comment9 min readEA link

In (Praise?) of Ineffec­tive Altuism

Edward FarrellyNov 10, 2022, 9:47 AM
−7 points
6 comments6 min readEA link

A pro­posed hi­er­ar­chy of longter­mist concepts

ArepoOct 30, 2022, 4:26 PM
38 points
13 comments4 min readEA link

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

Max GörlitzJul 4, 2022, 5:09 PM
41 points
6 comments2 min readEA link

What is your con­fi­dence in the premises of the Repug­nant Con­clu­sion?

Vasco Grilo🔸Sep 20, 2022, 4:30 PM
16 points
11 comments3 min readEA link

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

peterhartreeSep 19, 2021, 8:44 AM
44 points
3 comments24 min readEA link

Mean­ing, medicine, and merit

Global Priorities InstituteAug 31, 2019, 1:42 PM
3 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

How tractable is clue­less­ness?

Milan GriffesDec 29, 2017, 6:52 PM
19 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

How to dis­solve moral clue­less­ness about donat­ing mosquito nets

ben.smithJun 8, 2022, 7:12 AM
25 points
8 comments12 min readEA link

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

George StiffmanJul 22, 2022, 6:14 PM
21 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Mus­lims for Effec­tive Altruism

Ahmed GhoorJul 27, 2022, 4:54 PM
239 points
18 comments5 min readEA link

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

Jared_RiggsAug 8, 2022, 12:57 AM
30 points
5 comments13 min readEA link

[Question] What makes a state­ment a nor­ma­tive state­ment?

VynnApr 19, 2022, 8:41 AM
2 points
17 comments1 min readEA link

Do­ing good while clueless

Milan GriffesFeb 15, 2018, 5:04 AM
46 points
8 comments6 min readEA link

We must be very clear: fraud in the ser­vice of effec­tive al­tru­ism is unacceptable

evhubNov 10, 2022, 11:31 PM
712 points
86 comments3 min readEA link

Some non-util­i­tar­ian readings

banonNov 5, 2022, 8:52 PM
6 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Re­spon­si­bil­ity and Re­form: Are we learn­ing the right les­sons from FTX?

hawkebiaNov 13, 2022, 2:48 PM
1 point
3 comments4 min readEA link

Key take­aways from Famine, Affluence, and Morality

Emma Richter🔸Sep 14, 2022, 9:02 PM
25 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

The stan­dard per­son-af­fect­ing view doesn’t solve the Repug­nant Con­clu­sion.

GilAug 23, 2022, 7:58 PM
21 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] EA’s Achieve­ments in 2022

ElliotJDaviesDec 14, 2022, 2:33 PM
98 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

Utili­tar­i­anism is the only op­tion

aelwoodDec 3, 2022, 5:14 PM
3 points
3 comments6 min readEA link
(pursuingreality.substack.com)

His­tor­i­cal ex­pe­rience and links to sub­jec­tive happiness

ArnoNov 6, 2022, 7:05 PM
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Where to draw the line of eth­i­cal­ity in the case of an­i­mal forced la­bor?

vmasarikNov 16, 2022, 7:05 PM
9 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Hard Prob­lems in GiveWell’s Mo­ral Weights Approach

TanaeNov 1, 2022, 4:51 AM
37 points
3 comments9 min readEA link

Punch­ing Utili­tar­i­ans in the Face

AppliedDivinityStudiesJul 13, 2022, 6:43 PM
62 points
29 comments5 min readEA link

A Para­dox for Tiny Prob­a­bil­ities and Enor­mous Values

Global Priorities InstituteJul 1, 2021, 7:00 AM
5 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Why do you care?

anonymous1May 8, 2022, 10:44 AM
12 points
6 comments4 min readEA link

In Defence of Tem­po­ral Dis­count­ing in Longter­mist Ethics

𝕮𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖗𝖆Nov 13, 2022, 9:30 PM
17 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

Pro­mot­ing com­pas­sion­ate longtermism

jonleightonDec 7, 2022, 2:26 PM
117 points
5 comments12 min readEA link

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

Mahendra PrasadSep 24, 2021, 2:54 AM
2 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Min­i­mal­ist ex­tended very re­pug­nant con­clu­sions are the least repugnant

Teo AjantaivalOct 24, 2022, 9:46 AM
78 points
0 comments15 min readEA link

Ex­is­ten­tial Risks: Hu­man Rights

Chiharu SaruwatariDec 15, 2022, 12:35 PM
4 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

A Prob­lem with Motivation

James AitchisonMay 25, 2022, 8:35 AM
9 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

New blog: Some doubts about effec­tive altruism

David ThorstadDec 20, 2022, 7:34 PM
124 points
36 comments4 min readEA link

Find out how util­i­tar­ian you are—a mega thread of philos­o­phy polls

spencergSep 10, 2022, 2:01 PM
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(twitter.com)

Th­e­sis Sum­mary and Open Ques­tions: Nor­ma­tive Uncer­tainty and In­for­ma­tion Value

rileyharrisApr 27, 2022, 8:46 AM
32 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

‘Do­ing good bet­ter—moral philos­o­phy and Effec­tive Altru­ism’ course syl­labus.

Tom Bry-Chevalier🔸Sep 15, 2022, 10:59 AM
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Longter­mist (es­pe­cially x-risk) ter­minol­ogy has bi­as­ing assumptions

ArepoOct 30, 2022, 4:26 PM
70 points
13 comments7 min readEA link

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

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

Ques­tions about and Ob­jec­tions to ‘Shar­ing the World with Digi­tal Minds’ (2020)

David Mathers🔸Oct 7, 2022, 1:36 PM
36 points
3 comments7 min readEA link

Effec­tive vs Altruism

Liat ZviSep 16, 2022, 9:37 AM
2 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Con­struc­tive Crit­i­cism of Mo­ral Uncer­tainty (book)

mariushobbhahnJun 4, 2021, 6:04 AM
28 points
3 comments5 min readEA link