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Philosophy is a field oriented towards investigating the most general and abstract features of the world. In effective altruism, discussions often focus on moral philosophy in particular. Work in effective altruism often raises questions like:

• What is ‘good’?

• Which ethical theory should we follow?

• Do humans have a duty to do good?

• Is there a “true morality”?

• How should we deal with moral and epistemic uncertainty?

Philosophy can help answer these questions. Philosophical ideas or areas that are relevant to effective altruism include:

consequentialism (in particular utilitarianism): many EAs want to maximise the good according to consequentialist moral theories

longtermism: the theory that positively influencing the future must be a key moral priority, because of the future’s likely scale

population ethics: should we care about making people happy, or making happy people? Is it better to have more people who are less happy, or fewer people who are happier?

epistemology, for example Bayesian epistemology (a theory for how to update our beliefs in the light of new evidence)

decision theory

Some academic philosophers, for example Peter Singer, Will MacAskill, Hilary Greaves, Nick Beckstead, and Toby Ord, have been very influential in effective altruism.

Academic philosophy as a career

80,000 Hours’ shallow profile rates philosophy as a “sometimes recommended” career. Academic philosophy is highly competitive, but philosophers have the potential to do important research in neglected areas, and effective advocacy through teaching or public engagement.[1]

Further reading

Beckstead, Nicholas (2013) On the overwhelming importance of shaping the far future (PhD thesis)

Greaves, Hilary (2023) Hilary Greaves’ home page

MacAskill, William (2012a) How to be a high impact philosopher, 80,000 Hours, May 8.

MacAskill, William (2012b) How to be a high impact philosopher, part II, 80,000 Hours, September 27.

MacAskill, William Research page

Nagel, Thomas (1987) What Does It All Mean? A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Ord, Toby (2013) The moral imperative towards cost-effectiveness in global health, Center for Global Development

Plant, Michael (2019) Doing good badly? Philosophical issues related to effective altruism (PhD thesis)

Singer, Peter (1972) Famine, affluence and morality (Philosophy and Public Affairs)

Srinivasan, Amia (2015) Stop the robot apocalypse (London Review of Books)

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moral philosophy | philosophy of effective altruism | philosophy of mind

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    Koehler, Arden & William MacAskill (2019) Philosophy academia, 80,000 Hours, August.

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123 points
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91 points
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55 points
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62 points
12 comments6 min readEA link
(www.goodthoughts.blog)

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37 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(jesp.org)

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305 points
60 comments16 min readEA link

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37 points
2 comments30 min readEA link
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15 points
16 comments1 min readEA link

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220 points
29 comments15 min readEA link

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115 points
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21 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
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31 points
0 comments14 min readEA link

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Conrad SMar 17, 2023, 10:17 AM
73 points
10 comments10 min readEA link
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10 points
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18 points
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42 points
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125 points
6 comments6 min readEA link

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35 points
31 comments2 min readEA link
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23 points
7 comments12 min readEA link

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15 points
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22 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

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67 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

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17 points
29 comments9 min readEA link

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12 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

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29 points
3 comments10 min readEA link

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41 points
46 comments25 min readEA link

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48 points
71 comments2 min readEA link
(www.dropbox.com)

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66 points
26 comments27 min readEA link

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2 points
3 comments6 min readEA link
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174 points
26 comments7 min readEA link
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−12 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

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64 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

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103 points
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36 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

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61 points
14 comments10 min readEA link

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37 points
7 comments4 min readEA link
(rychappell.substack.com)

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16 points
22 comments7 min readEA link

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9 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

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2 points
1 comment9 min readEA link

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28 points
1 comment7 min readEA link

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120 points
7 comments20 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

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3 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

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7 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

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32 points
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17 points
32 comments5 min readEA link

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58 points
5 comments13 min readEA link

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27 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

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125 points
26 comments40 min readEA link

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3 points
0 comments11 min readEA link

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7 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

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62 points
23 comments4 min readEA link

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33 points
6 comments2 min readEA link

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32 points
20 comments1 min readEA link

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26 points
3 comments9 min readEA link

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3 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(link.springer.com)

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1 point
0 comments3 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

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42 points
10 comments17 min readEA link
(keirbradwell.substack.com)

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89 points
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12 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

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46 points
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28 points
4 comments1 min readEA link
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112 points
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15 points
11 comments10 min readEA link

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15 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

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19 points
3 comments9 min readEA link

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26 points
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22 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
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62 points
54 comments24 min readEA link

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7 points
4 comments10 min readEA link

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10 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.cambridge.org)

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90 points
14 comments26 min readEA link

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61 points
4 comments2 min readEA link
(yadvashem.org)

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10 points
2 comments10 min readEA link

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2 points
14 comments1 min readEA link

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25 points
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34 points
7 comments35 min readEA link
(kennethdiao.substack.com)

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12 points
33 comments19 min readEA link

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10 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

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35 points
21 comments1 min readEA link

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13 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

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37 points
4 comments1 min readEA link
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11 points
0 comments9 min readEA link

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1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link

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5 points
3 comments17 min readEA link

Book Re­view: Parfit—A Philoso­pher and His Mis­sion to Save Morality

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22 points
2 comments4 min readEA link
(www.goodreads.com)

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21 points
18 comments6 min readEA link

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16 points
1 comment8 min readEA link

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3 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

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259 points
6 comments5 min readEA link
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20 points
2 comments20 min readEA link

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42 points
6 comments9 min readEA link

Tragic Beliefs

Toby Tremlett🔹Feb 8, 2024, 5:41 PM
200 points
20 comments5 min readEA link

De­con­fu­sion Part 3 - EA Com­mu­nity and So­cial Structure

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83 points
4 comments8 min readEA link

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8 points
2 comments4 min readEA link
(80000horas.com.br)

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

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30 points
8 comments2 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

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8 points
18 comments5 min readEA link

AI strat­egy given the need for good reflection

Owen Cotton-BarrattMar 18, 2024, 12:48 AM
40 points
1 comment5 min readEA link

Dist­in­guish­ing be­tween the “philos­o­phy of EA” and the “EA com­mu­nity” to pro­mote effec­tive outreach

Kat BiewerApr 7, 2023, 3:38 AM
27 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Es­say com­pe­ti­tion on the Au­toma­tion of Wis­dom and Philos­o­phy — $25k in prizes

Owen Cotton-BarrattApr 16, 2024, 10:08 AM
80 points
15 comments8 min readEA link
(blog.aiimpacts.org)

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Eleni_AMay 1, 2024, 3:22 PM
8 points
2 comments8 min readEA link

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Derek ShillerJul 3, 2024, 6:50 PM
71 points
21 comments8 min readEA link

The scale of an­i­mal agriculture

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49 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

Benefi­cen­tric Virtue Ethics

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36 points
14 comments4 min readEA link
(rychappell.substack.com)

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

Some Prob­lems with Com­par­ing Fac­tory Farm­ing to the Holocaust

Devin KalishJan 22, 2024, 5:57 PM
14 points
2 comments9 min readEA link
(www.thinkingmuchbetter.com)

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

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62 points
9 comments3 min readEA link
(www.goodthoughts.blog)

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Bob FischerOct 23, 2024, 12:23 PM
28 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Distinc­tions when Dis­cussing Utility Functions

Ozzie GooenMar 8, 2024, 6:43 PM
15 points
5 comments8 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 Mis­di­rec­tion (full post)

Richard Y Chappell🔸Jun 14, 2024, 6:49 PM
43 points
1 comment12 min readEA link
(www.goodthoughts.blog)

Pri­ori­tis­ing an­i­mal welfare over global health and de­vel­op­ment?

Vasco Grilo🔸May 13, 2023, 9:03 AM
112 points
50 comments18 min readEA link

EA Lifestyles: Filial Piety and EA

KirstenFeb 20, 2023, 7:57 PM
35 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(ealifestyles.substack.com)

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Global Priorities InstituteDec 13, 2023, 11:37 AM
38 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

LLMs can­not use­fully be moral patients

LGSJul 2, 2024, 4:43 AM
35 points
24 comments4 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

Re­think’s CURVE Se­quence—The Good and the Gaps

JackMNov 28, 2023, 1:06 AM
96 points
7 comments10 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)

Really rad­i­cal empathy

MichaelStJulesJan 6, 2025, 5:46 PM
30 points
3 comments10 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)

Fund Causes Open Phil Un­der­funds (In­stead of Your Most Preferred Causes)

Ariel Simnegar 🔸Nov 9, 2024, 11:48 PM
187 points
18 comments3 min readEA link

Re­duc­ing the neart­erm risk of hu­man ex­tinc­tion is not as­tro­nom­i­cally cost-effec­tive?

Vasco Grilo🔸Jun 9, 2024, 8:02 AM
20 points
37 comments8 min readEA link

Exit Duty Gen­er­a­tor by Matti Häyry

OldphanFeb 24, 2023, 8:36 PM
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.cambridge.org)

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

De­con­fus­ing Effec­tive Altru­ism: The Philosophy

DavidmanheimJan 29, 2023, 6:09 PM
39 points
1 comment7 min readEA link

Arthro­pod (non) sentience

Arturo MaciasNov 25, 2024, 3:35 PM
−7 points
4 comments4 min readEA link

Re­source Allo­ca­tion: A Re­search Agenda

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

The Welfare of Digi­tal Minds: A Re­search Agenda

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

In­sec­ti­cide-treated nets sig­nifi­cantly harm mosquitoes, but one can eas­ily offset this?

Vasco Grilo🔸Feb 3, 2025, 6:03 PM
28 points
41 comments7 min readEA link

[Question] A Use­ful Distinc­tion: Card-Car­ry­ing Effec­tive Altru­ists Ver­sus Philo­soph­i­cal Effec­tive Altruists

OmnizoidJan 29, 2023, 8:11 PM
16 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

2025 An­i­mal Welfare Eco­nomics Con­fer­ence @ PSE

Bob FischerJan 5, 2025, 1:23 PM
47 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Value frag­ility and AI takeover

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

Some im­pli­ca­tions of rad­i­cal empathy

MichaelStJulesJan 7, 2025, 4:10 PM
15 points
0 comments7 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)

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

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

Towards the Oper­a­tional­iza­tion of Philos­o­phy & Wisdom

Thane RuthenisOct 28, 2024, 7:45 PM
1 point
1 comment1 min readEA link
(aiimpacts.org)

De­sire-Fulfil­ment and Con­scious­ness (An­dreas Mo­gensen)

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

LLMs might not be the fu­ture of search: at least, not yet.

James-Hartree-LawJan 22, 2025, 9:40 PM
4 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

The Ethics of Ac­tion and In­ac­tion: Altru­ism, Obli­ga­tion, and the In­visi­ble Button

Brad West🔸Aug 28, 2024, 4:50 PM
19 points
8 comments3 min readEA link

Un­pack­ing Martin Sandbu’s re­cent(ish) take on EA

JWS 🔸Jan 20, 2024, 1:16 AM
68 points
2 comments15 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)

Sum­mary: The weight of suffering

Global Priorities InstituteMay 27, 2024, 10:43 AM
24 points
1 comment6 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Se­quence overview: Welfare and moral weights

MichaelStJulesAug 1, 2024, 4:51 PM
34 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

The moral am­bi­guity of fish­ing on wild aquatic an­i­mal populations

MichaelStJulesMay 6, 2024, 11:03 PM
76 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

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

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

The Sub­ject in Sub­jec­tive Time: A New Ap­proach to Ag­gre­gat­ing Wel­lbe­ing (pa­per draft)

Devin KalishSep 15, 2024, 8:18 PM
33 points
2 comments50 min readEA link

Maybe longter­mism isn’t for everyone

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

Im­perfec­tion is OK

Richard Y Chappell🔸Jul 6, 2024, 6:43 PM
59 points
5 comments6 min readEA link
(www.goodthoughts.blog)

Dispel­ling the An­thropic Shadow (Teruji Thomas)

Global Priorities InstituteOct 16, 2024, 1:25 PM
11 points
1 comment3 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Brian To­masik on co­op­er­a­tion and peace

Vasco Grilo🔸May 20, 2024, 5:01 PM
27 points
1 comment4 min readEA link
(reducing-suffering.org)

An In­tro­duc­tion to the CRAFT Sequence

Bob FischerJul 8, 2024, 10:27 AM
103 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

Pro­ject ideas: Backup plans & Co­op­er­a­tive AI

Lukas FinnvedenJan 4, 2024, 7:26 AM
25 points
2 comments13 min readEA link
(lukasfinnveden.substack.com)

A non-iden­tity dilemma for per­son-af­fect­ing views (Elliott Thorn­ley)

Global Priorities InstituteApr 4, 2024, 4:30 PM
13 points
3 comments3 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Utili­tar­i­anism and the re­place­abil­ity of de­sires and attachments

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

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

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

[April Fools] Towards A Bet­ter Mo­ral Circle

Devin KalishApr 1, 2024, 9:21 AM
18 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Deon­tolog­i­cal Con­straints on An­i­mal Products

emre kaplan🔸Apr 9, 2024, 10:40 AM
57 points
7 comments18 min readEA link

Blog up­date: Reflec­tive altruism

David ThorstadDec 15, 2024, 4:05 PM
103 points
12 comments11 min readEA link

Gentle­ness and the ar­tifi­cial Other

Joe_CarlsmithJan 2, 2024, 6:21 PM
90 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Mak­ing AI Welfare an EA pri­or­ity re­quires jus­tifi­ca­tions that have not been given

JWS 🔸Jul 7, 2024, 9:38 PM
59 points
21 comments6 min readEA link

Re­think Pri­ori­ties’ Digi­tal Con­scious­ness Pro­ject Announcement

Bob FischerJul 5, 2024, 11:15 AM
115 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

EA “Wor­ld­views” Need Rethinking

Richard Y Chappell🔸Mar 18, 2024, 3:10 PM
290 points
82 comments3 min readEA link

Sum­mary: In defence of fanaticism

Global Priorities InstituteMay 9, 2024, 3:09 PM
29 points
1 comment6 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

Sum­mary: Against the sin­gu­lar­ity hypothesis

Global Priorities InstituteMay 22, 2024, 11:05 AM
46 points
14 comments4 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Re­think Pri­ori­ties’ Mo­ral Par­li­a­ment Tool

Derek ShillerJul 17, 2024, 12:34 PM
184 points
12 comments12 min readEA link

Ex­pe­rience size

trammellOct 7, 2024, 9:43 PM
101 points
14 comments20 min readEA link

Astro­nom­i­cal Cake

Richard Y Chappell🔸Jun 5, 2024, 2:12 PM
60 points
7 comments5 min readEA link
(www.goodthoughts.blog)

Ques­tion­ing Benefi­cence: Four Philoso­phers on Effec­tive Altru­ism and Do­ing Good

Richard Y Chappell🔸Sep 28, 2024, 3:45 PM
35 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(www.goodthoughts.blog)

New Open Ac­cess Book: Weigh­ing An­i­mal Welfare, ed­ited by Bob Fischer

Bob FischerOct 22, 2024, 11:25 AM
145 points
9 comments2 min readEA link

Paus­ing for what?

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

The Dangers of a Lit­tle Knowledge

Richard Y Chappell🔸Jan 2, 2024, 12:29 AM
30 points
4 comments5 min readEA link
(rychappell.substack.com)

Max­imis­ing ex­pected util­ity fol­lows from self-ev­i­dent premises?

Vasco Grilo🔸Jan 19, 2025, 9:59 AM
17 points
25 comments1 min readEA link
(en.wikipedia.org)

Ac­tu­al­ism, asym­me­try and extinction

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

What should we ask Rut­ger Breg­man and Peter Singer about how they changed their minds?

Aidan AlexanderFeb 21, 2025, 11:37 AM
26 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Mo­ral mountaineering

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

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

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)

Which an­i­mals are most af­fected by fish­ing?

MichaelStJulesNov 25, 2024, 5:39 AM
51 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

When is Philos­o­phy Worth Fund­ing?

Richard Y Chappell🔸Nov 11, 2024, 9:48 PM
30 points
5 comments5 min readEA link

[Draft] The hum­ble cos­mol­o­gist’s P(doom) paradox

titotalMar 16, 2024, 11:13 AM
38 points
6 comments10 min readEA link

How much should we put in each bucket?

Toby Tremlett🔹Mar 11, 2024, 11:03 AM
22 points
4 comments7 min readEA link

Whole­some Culture

Owen Cotton-BarrattMar 1, 2024, 12:08 PM
25 points
0 comments10 min readEA link

Gra­da­tions of moral weight

MichaelStJulesFeb 29, 2024, 11:08 PM
13 points
0 comments10 min readEA link

LLMs are weirder than you think

Derek ShillerNov 20, 2024, 1:39 PM
61 points
3 comments22 min readEA link

Beyond Max­ipok — good re­flec­tive gov­er­nance as a tar­get for action

Owen Cotton-BarrattMar 15, 2024, 10:22 PM
43 points
2 comments7 min readEA link

Je­sus Among The Utilitarians

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

Utili­tar­i­anism.net Updates

Richard Y Chappell🔸Sep 16, 2024, 10:03 PM
112 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(www.goodthoughts.blog)

EA Ho­tel: Live The­ory Work­shop this month

CEEALARNov 7, 2024, 10:39 AM
14 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

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)

Co­op­er­at­ing with aliens and AGIs: An ECL explainer

ChiFeb 24, 2024, 10:58 PM
54 points
9 comments20 min readEA link

The Case for An­i­mal-In­clu­sive Longtermism

Eevee🔹Feb 17, 2024, 12:07 AM
66 points
7 comments30 min readEA link
(brill.com)

Everett branches, in­ter-light cone trade and other alien mat­ters: Ap­pendix to “An ECL ex­plainer”

ChiFeb 24, 2024, 11:09 PM
26 points
1 comment11 min readEA link

Mo­ral Trade, Im­pact Distri­bu­tions and Large Worlds

LarksSep 20, 2024, 3:45 AM
25 points
1 comment4 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

Act­ing Wholesomely

Owen Cotton-BarrattFeb 26, 2024, 9:49 PM
26 points
15 comments16 min readEA link

PhD stu­dent and post­doc po­si­tions philos­o­phy of AI in Er­lan­gen (Ger­many)

LeonardDungJun 15, 2023, 9:03 PM
13 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Daniel Filan and I dis­cuss suffer­ing fo­cused ethics and to­tal util­i­tar­i­anism [pod­cast + tran­script]

Aaron BergmanAug 27, 2023, 3:51 AM
24 points
1 comment28 min readEA link
(www.aaronbergman.net)

Eco­nomics of An­i­mal Welfare: Call for Abstracts

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

Straw­men, steel­men, and mithril­men: get­ting the prin­ci­ple of char­ity right

MichaelPlantJun 9, 2023, 1:02 PM
89 points
11 comments2 min readEA link

Statis­ti­cal foun­da­tions for wor­ld­view diversification

Karthik TadepalliAug 23, 2024, 11:55 AM
48 points
4 comments11 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

What ac­tu­ally is “value-al­ign­ment”?

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

An even deeper atheism

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

Ev­i­den­tial Co­op­er­a­tion in Large Wor­lds: Po­ten­tial Ob­jec­tions & FAQ

ChiFeb 28, 2024, 6:58 PM
40 points
5 comments18 min readEA link

Ram­sey and In­ter­gen­er­a­tional Welfare Eco­nomics—Stan­ford En­cy­clo­pe­dia of Philosophy

Eevee🔹May 24, 2023, 12:27 AM
14 points
1 comment2 min readEA link
(plato.stanford.edu)

Sum­mary: The scope of longtermism

Global Priorities InstituteDec 18, 2023, 1:25 PM
52 points
4 comments4 min readEA link

The Meat Eater Problem

Vasco Grilo🔸Jun 17, 2023, 6:52 AM
61 points
1 comment7 min readEA link
(journalofcontroversialideas.org)

‘Why not effec­tive al­tru­ism?’ — Richard Y. Chappell

PabloNov 22, 2023, 3:04 PM
68 points
7 comments1 min readEA link
(philpapers.org)

Does AI risk “other” the AIs?

Joe_CarlsmithJan 9, 2024, 5:51 PM
23 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

A per­sonal state­ment on FTX

William_MacAskillNov 12, 2022, 4:40 PM
289 points
144 comments2 min readEA link

Life in a Day: The film that opened my heart to effec­tive altruism

Aaron Gertler 🔸Apr 27, 2023, 10:44 PM
179 points
9 comments6 min readEA link

[Question] Values of a Space-Far­ing Civilization

Anthony FlemingApr 30, 2023, 10:17 PM
6 points
0 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

When “yang” goes wrong

Joe_CarlsmithJan 8, 2024, 4:35 PM
57 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Which an­i­mals re­al­ize which types of sub­jec­tive welfare?

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

Peter Singer AMA (July 30th)

Toby Tremlett🔹Jul 22, 2024, 11:25 AM
126 points
57 comments1 min readEA link

“The Tango of Ethics”—Book launch and discussion

RasoolApr 14, 2023, 8:40 AM
16 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Plea­sure and suffer­ing are not con­cep­tual opposites

MichaelStJulesAug 11, 2024, 6:32 PM
32 points
7 comments1 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

Panel dis­cus­sion on AI con­scious­ness with Rob Long and Jeff Sebo

Aaron BergmanSep 9, 2023, 3:38 AM
31 points
6 comments42 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Should we pri­or­tize cog­ni­tive sci­ence in EA?

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

How to be a good ag­nos­tic (and some good rea­sons to be dog­matic)

peterhartreeFeb 4, 2023, 11:08 AM
11 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

Im­por­tance of In­creas­ing Suffer­ing-fo­cused Values and Po­ten­tial Interventions

DimpoOct 8, 2023, 3:23 AM
3 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

Some Ar­gu­ments For Sen­tien­tism

OmnizoidMay 18, 2023, 9:30 AM
16 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

Egyp­tol­ogy and Fa­nat­i­cism (Hay­den Wilk­in­son)

Global Priorities InstituteOct 5, 2023, 6:32 AM
19 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Philo­soph­i­cal con­sid­er­a­tions rele­vant to valu­ing con­tinued hu­man sur­vival: Con­cep­tual Anal­y­sis, Pop­u­la­tion Ax­iol­ogy, and De­ci­sion The­ory (An­dreas Mo­gensen)

Global Priorities InstituteNov 1, 2023, 12:10 PM
45 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Con­cepts of ex­is­ten­tial catas­tro­phe (Hilary Greaves)

Global Priorities InstituteNov 9, 2023, 5:42 PM
41 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Tak­ing Uncer­tainty Se­ri­ously (or, Why Tools Mat­ter)

Bob FischerJul 19, 2024, 10:30 AM
115 points
4 comments8 min readEA link

Epi­sode #180 - What if ev­ery­thing is con­scious­ness? - Philoso­phize This!

Eevee🔹Jul 4, 2023, 6:43 PM
8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.philosophizethis.org)

HLI’s 2023-4 re­search agenda

MichaelPlantJul 6, 2023, 12:02 PM
46 points
11 comments12 min readEA link

Con­fes­sions of a Cheese­burger Ethicist

Richard Y Chappell🔸Nov 17, 2023, 4:09 PM
33 points
7 comments4 min readEA link
(rychappell.substack.com)

Against Con­di­tional Beneficence

Richard Y Chappell🔸Nov 9, 2023, 4:55 PM
13 points
0 comments7 min readEA link
(rychappell.substack.com)

How Re­think Pri­ori­ties is Ad­dress­ing Risk and Uncertainty

Marcus_A_DavisNov 7, 2023, 1:42 PM
89 points
10 comments7 min readEA link

“Aligned with who?” Re­sults of sur­vey­ing 1,000 US par­ti­ci­pants on AI values

Holly MorganMar 21, 2023, 10:07 PM
41 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

[Link Post] Do Microbes Mat­ter More Than Hu­mans?

BrianKJun 28, 2023, 2:15 AM
45 points
14 comments1 min readEA link
(www.wired.com)

Some thoughts on mod­er­a­tion in do­ing good

Vasco Grilo🔸Jan 20, 2024, 9:28 AM
34 points
2 comments10 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

De Dicto and De Se Refer­ence Mat­ters for Alignment

philgoetzOct 3, 2023, 9:57 PM
5 points
2 comments9 min readEA link

Why I don’t pri­ori­tize con­scious­ness research

Vasco Grilo🔸Oct 28, 2023, 8:07 AM
45 points
5 comments6 min readEA link
(magnusvinding.com)

An­dreas Mo­gensen’s “Max­i­mal Clue­less­ness”

PabloSep 25, 2019, 11:18 AM
70 points
36 comments1 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Welfare and felt du­ra­tion (An­dreas Mo­gensen)

Global Priorities InstituteNov 27, 2023, 3:40 PM
24 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

Epi­sode #179 - Why is con­scious­ness some­thing worth talk­ing about? - Philoso­phize This!

Eevee🔹Jul 4, 2023, 6:38 PM
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.philosophizethis.org)

The God of Hu­man­ity, and the God of the Robot Utilitarians

RaemonAug 29, 2023, 11:42 PM
50 points
6 comments2 min readEA link

Epi­sode #181 - What if con­scious­ness is an illu­sion? - Philoso­phize This!

Eevee🔹Jul 4, 2023, 6:45 PM
10 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.philosophizethis.org)

[Question] Should some peo­ple start work­ing to in­fluence the peo­ple who are most likely to shape the val­ues of the first AGIs, so that they take into ac­count the in­ter­ests of wild and farmed an­i­mals and sen­tient digi­tal minds?

Keyvan MostafaviAug 31, 2023, 12:08 PM
16 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Thought ex­per­i­ment: Trad­ing off risk, in­tra­gen­er­a­tional and in­ter­gen­er­a­tional in­equal­ity, and fairness

Jobst Heitzig (vodle.it)Sep 2, 2023, 11:32 PM
9 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

Sum­mary: Si­mu­la­tion expectation

Global Priorities InstituteSep 27, 2023, 10:58 AM
10 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

We­bi­nar in­vi­ta­tion: learn how to use Re­think Pri­ori­ties’ new pri­ori­ti­za­tion tool

Rethink PrioritiesNov 10, 2023, 8:35 PM
38 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Ar­gu­ments for util­i­tar­i­anism are im­pos­si­bil­ity ar­gu­ments un­der un­bounded prospects

MichaelStJulesOct 7, 2023, 9:09 PM
39 points
48 comments1 min readEA link

New A Hap­pier World video on sen­tien­tism and moral cir­cle expansion

Jeroen Willems🔸Aug 3, 2023, 11:25 PM
20 points
0 comments13 min readEA link

Should you go with your best guess?: Against pre­cise Bayesi­anism and re­lated views

Anthony DiGiovanniJan 27, 2025, 8:25 PM
72 points
1 comment22 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)

Prac­ti­cal ethics re­quires meta­phys­i­cal Free Will

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

EA Should Re­name Itself

Name RectifierSep 2, 2022, 4:28 AM
1 point
0 comments16 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

The Nar­row­ing Cir­cle (Gw­ern)

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

[Question] Is the EA com­mu­nity re­ally ad­vo­cat­ing prin­ci­ples over con­clu­sions ?

Solal 🔸Dec 11, 2024, 4:31 PM
73 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

Rab­bits, robots and resurrection

Patrick WilsonMay 10, 2022, 3:00 PM
9 points
0 comments15 min readEA link

Suc­cess Max­i­miza­tion: An Alter­na­tive to Ex­pected Utility The­ory and a Gen­er­al­iza­tion of Max­ipok to Mo­ral Uncertainty

Mahendra PrasadNov 26, 2022, 1:53 AM
13 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Some his­tory top­ics it might be very valuable to investigate

MichaelA🔸Jul 8, 2020, 2:40 AM
91 points
34 comments6 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)

Risky Giving

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

Fal­li­bil­ism, Bias, and the Rule of Law

Elliot TempleOct 17, 2022, 11:59 PM
14 points
6 comments13 min readEA link
(criticalfallibilism.com)

Pod­cast: Bryan Ca­plan on open bor­ders, UBI, to­tal­i­tar­i­anism, AI, pan­demics, util­i­tar­i­anism and la­bor economics

Gus DockerFeb 22, 2022, 3:04 PM
22 points
0 comments45 min readEA link
(www.utilitarianpodcast.com)

MORE Effec­tive Altruism

Marty NemkoDec 19, 2022, 11:19 PM
1 point
4 comments1 min readEA link

Blind Spots: Compartmentalizing

DaleDec 31, 2014, 10:25 PM
20 points
55 comments14 min readEA link

Cal­ibra­tion dilem­mas in the ethics of distribution

Global Priorities InstituteAug 1, 2021, 1:12 PM
8 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

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)

Pri­ori­ti­za­tion Ques­tions for Ar­tifi­cial Sentience

Jamie_HarrisOct 18, 2021, 2:07 PM
30 points
2 comments8 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.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

The “Mo­ral Uncer­tainty” Rab­bit Hole, Fully Excavated

Lukas_GloorApr 1, 2022, 1:14 PM
23 points
2 comments34 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

EA read­ing list: util­i­tar­i­anism and consciousness

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

Don’t leave your finger­prints on the future

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

Meta-Prefer­ence Utilitarianism

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

Why should I care about in­sects?

JamieGittinsMay 18, 2022, 7:37 PM
88 points
20 comments5 min readEA link

Timeline Utilitarianism

Bob Jacobs 🔸Oct 9, 2020, 8:12 PM
15 points
11 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

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

How can we re­duce s-risks?

Tobias_BaumannJan 29, 2021, 3:46 PM
42 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(centerforreducingsuffering.org)

Con­se­quen­tial­ism as an ex­per­i­men­tal discipline

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

S-risk FAQ

Tobias_BaumannSep 18, 2017, 8:05 AM
29 points
8 comments8 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing ‘The Fu­ture Loves You: How and Why We Should Abol­ish Death’

Ariel_ZJOct 31, 2024, 12:31 AM
12 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

EA read­ing list: suffer­ing-fo­cused ethics

richard_ngoAug 3, 2020, 9:40 AM
43 points
3 comments1 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)

some con­cerns with clas­si­cal utilitarianism

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

Kar­da­shev for Kindness

Mary StowersJun 11, 2021, 10:22 PM
30 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

‘Evolu­tion­ary de­bunk­ing ar­gu­ments’ about hu­man moral intuitions

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

Would you rather kill 2 mice or 10 fish? In­ter­species Trade-Offs and the Mo­ral Weight of An­i­mal Species in Biomed­i­cal Research

Aashish KMar 20, 2024, 6:17 PM
11 points
1 comment8 min readEA link

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

Global Priorities InstituteApr 30, 2021, 1:26 PM
4 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Defend­ing the Pro­cre­ation Asym­me­try with Con­di­tional Interests

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

EA needs Life-Veter­ans and “Less Smart” people

Jeffrey KursonisMar 8, 2023, 3:59 PM
80 points
38 comments4 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)

Cri­tique of MacAskill’s “Is It Good to Make Happy Peo­ple?”

Magnus VindingAug 23, 2022, 9:21 AM
223 points
115 comments8 min readEA link

[Question] Math­e­mat­i­cal mod­els of Ethics

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

Ar­ti­cle Against Utilitarianism

Noah BirnbaumJul 18, 2024, 8:59 PM
3 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(open.substack.com)

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

Pos­i­tive roles of life and ex­pe­rience in suffer­ing-fo­cused ethics

Teo AjantaivalMay 22, 2021, 4:05 PM
49 points
1 comment19 min readEA link

Pro­mot­ing com­pas­sion­ate longtermism

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

The rea­son­able­ness of spe­cial concerns

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

[TikTok] Com­pa­ra­bil­ity be­tween suffer­ing and happiness

Ben_West🔸Sep 1, 2022, 4:31 PM
23 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

Coun­ter­pro­duc­tive Altru­ism: The Other Heavy Tail

Vasco Grilo🔸Mar 1, 2023, 9:58 AM
186 points
8 comments7 min readEA link
(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

There is no royal road to al­ign­ment

Eleni_ASep 17, 2022, 1:24 PM
18 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Are we ne­glect­ing ed­u­ca­tion? Philos­o­phy in schools as a longter­mist area

JackMJul 30, 2020, 4:31 PM
68 points
29 comments17 min readEA link

The un­think­able ur­gency of suffering

Aaron BergmanJun 26, 2021, 12:14 AM
54 points
9 comments6 min readEA link
(aaronbergman.substack.com)

Min­i­mal­ist ax­iolo­gies and pos­i­tive lives

Teo AjantaivalNov 13, 2021, 10:57 AM
57 points
12 comments24 min readEA link

Acausal normalcy

Andrew CritchMar 3, 2023, 11:35 PM
21 points
4 comments8 min readEA link

On­line Work­ing /​ Com­mu­nity Meetup for the Abo­li­tion of Suffering

Ruth_SeleoMay 31, 2022, 9:16 AM
7 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Why do you re­ject nega­tive util­i­tar­i­anism?

Teo AjantaivalFeb 12, 2019, 7:39 AM
16 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What pa­per on EA should I pre­sent in class on Philos­o­phy and Eco­nomics?

RamiroMar 3, 2023, 6:59 PM
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

High­est pri­or­ity threat: in­finite tor­ture

KAraxJan 26, 2023, 8:51 AM
−39 points
1 comment9 min readEA link

New Book: “Rea­soned Poli­tics” + Why I have writ­ten a book about politics

Magnus VindingMar 3, 2022, 11:31 AM
95 points
9 comments5 min readEA link

Ex­plor­ing a Log­a­r­ith­mic Tol­er­ance of Suffering

David ReberApr 12, 2021, 1:39 AM
10 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

AI al­ign­ment as a trans­la­tion problem

Roman LeventovFeb 5, 2024, 2:14 PM
3 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

A cri­tique of strong longtermism

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

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

Against Nega­tive Utilitarianism

OmnizoidDec 14, 2021, 8:17 PM
1 point
59 comments4 min readEA link

Joscha Bach on Syn­thetic In­tel­li­gence [an­no­tated]

Roman LeventovMar 2, 2023, 11:21 AM
8 points
0 comments9 min readEA link
(www.jimruttshow.com)

Nat­u­ral­is­tic dualism

Arturo MaciasDec 11, 2024, 3:51 PM
2 points
0 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

CLR’s An­nual Re­port 2021

stefan.torgesFeb 26, 2022, 12:47 PM
79 points
0 comments12 min readEA link

Nar­ra­tion: Re­duc­ing long-term risks from malev­olent actors

D0TheMathJul 15, 2021, 4:26 PM
23 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(anchor.fm)

Pod­cast: Mag­nus Vind­ing on re­duc­ing suffer­ing, why AI progress is likely to be grad­ual and dis­tributed and how to rea­son about poli­tics

Gus DockerNov 21, 2021, 3:29 PM
26 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.utilitarianpodcast.com)

Job list­ing (closed): Sen­tience In­sti­tute is ac­cept­ing ap­pli­ca­tions for a researcher

MichaelDelloMar 2, 2023, 4:36 AM
19 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

Why EA needs to be more conservative

Further or AlternativelyJan 23, 2023, 8:47 PM
3 points
9 comments10 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

[Question] Put­ting Peo­ple First in a Cul­ture of De­hu­man­iza­tion

jhealyJul 22, 2020, 3:31 AM
16 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

The Repug­nant Con­clu­sion Isn’t

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

Cause pri­ori­ti­za­tion for down­side-fo­cused value systems

Lukas_GloorJan 31, 2018, 2:47 PM
76 points
11 comments48 min readEA link

Re­duc­ing long-term risks from malev­olent actors

David_AlthausApr 29, 2020, 8:55 AM
344 points
93 comments37 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)

Altru­ism isn’t about sacrifice

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Sep 6, 2013, 4:00 AM
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Job – Academia] As­sis­tant Pro­fes­sor (Philos­o­phy/​Ethics) at Ling­nan Univer­sity (Hong Kong)

Andrea SauchelliOct 26, 2021, 9:25 AM
5 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

AMA: To­bias Bau­mann, Cen­ter for Re­duc­ing Suffering

Tobias_BaumannSep 6, 2020, 10:45 AM
48 points
45 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Which movies have been most effec­tive at ex­pand­ing your moral cir­cle?

Geoffrey MillerFeb 26, 2023, 2:34 AM
18 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Can you recom­mend as­so­ci­a­tions that deal with re­duc­ing suffer­ing?

YanaySep 12, 2022, 11:28 PM
24 points
17 comments1 min readEA link

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

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

Suffer­ing-Fo­cused Ethics (SFE) FAQ

EdisonYOct 16, 2021, 11:33 AM
77 points
22 comments24 min readEA link

Con­di­tional in­ter­ests, asym­me­tries and EA priorities

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

On­line Work­ing /​ Com­mu­nity Meetup for the Abo­li­tion of Suffering

Ruth_SeleoMay 18, 2022, 12:47 PM
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

In­ter­view with Jon Mal­latt about in­ver­te­brate consciousness

Max_CarpendaleApr 28, 2019, 5:52 PM
83 points
10 comments11 min readEA link

Justin Oak­ley: Virtue ethics and effec­tive altruism

EA GlobalAug 28, 2015, 9:21 AM
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

The Jour­nal of Danger­ous Ideas

rogersbacon1Feb 3, 2024, 3:43 PM
−26 points
1 comment5 min readEA link
(www.secretorum.life)

Devel­op­ing a Calcu­la­ble Con­science for AI: Equa­tion for Rights Violations

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

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

The Epistemic Challenge to Longter­mism (Tarsney, 2020)

MichaelA🔸Apr 4, 2021, 3:09 AM
79 points
27 comments2 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Even Allo­ca­tion Strat­egy un­der High Model Ambiguity

MichaelStJulesDec 31, 2020, 9:10 AM
15 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Virtues for Real-World Utilitarians

Stefan_SchubertAug 5, 2021, 10:56 PM
152 points
7 comments1 min readEA link
(psyarxiv.com)

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

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

Red team­ing a model for es­ti­mat­ing the value of longter­mist in­ter­ven­tions—A cri­tique of Tarsney’s “The Epistemic Challenge to Longter­mism”

Anjay FJul 16, 2022, 7:05 PM
21 points
0 comments30 min readEA link

Web of virtue the­sis [re­search note]

Owen Cotton-BarrattJan 1, 2021, 4:21 PM
57 points
1 comment9 min readEA link

Chris­tian Tarsney: Can we pre­dictably im­prove the far fu­ture?

EA GlobalOct 18, 2019, 7:40 AM
15 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Hilary Greaves: Ev­i­dence, clue­less­ness and the long term

EA GlobalOct 25, 2020, 5:48 AM
8 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Heuris­tics for clue­less agents: how to get away with ig­nor­ing what mat­ters most in or­di­nary de­ci­sion-making

Global Priorities InstituteMay 31, 2020, 1:35 PM
4 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

De­tect­ing Mo­rally Sig­nifi­cant Pain in Non­hu­mans: Some Philo­soph­i­cal Difficulties

Jason SchukraftDec 23, 2018, 5:49 PM
73 points
8 comments22 min readEA link

[Question] Why might one value an­i­mals far less than hu­mans?

IsabelHasseJun 8, 2020, 1:54 AM
28 points
14 comments1 min readEA link

Peter Singer: Non-hu­man an­i­mal ethics

EA GlobalAug 28, 2015, 5:21 PM
9 points
0 comments1 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)

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)

An in­ner de­bate on risk aver­sion and sys­temic change

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

Busi­ness ethics within the EA framework

BloopNov 30, 2022, 6:31 AM
11 points
5 comments1 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)

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

Jack RAug 3, 2022, 10:47 PM
71 points
12 comments3 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)

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)

My favourite Holden Karnofsky es­says (pre Cold Takes)

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

Find­ing bugs in GiveWell’s top charities

Vasco Grilo🔸Jan 23, 2023, 4:49 PM
47 points
14 comments6 min readEA link

Mo­ral plu­ral­ism and longter­mism | Sunyshore

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

Can Zikora my deaf-blind child benefit from any in­ter­ven­tion?

emmannaemekaNov 17, 2022, 9:55 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link

A “Solip­sis­tic” Repug­nant Conclusion

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

Ve­ga­pho­bia—A Brief Presentation

dlnrbts283Dec 20, 2022, 9:08 PM
10 points
0 comments4 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

[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

Is it eth­i­cal to ex­pand nu­clear en­ergy use?

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

Avoid­ing Mo­ral Fads?

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

Some non-util­i­tar­ian readings

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

Com­plete archive of the Feli­ci­fia forum

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

Sam Bankman-Fried, the FTX col­lapse, and the limits of effec­tive al­tru­ism [The Hindu]

Elijah HooleNov 27, 2022, 5:42 AM
−12 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(www.thehindu.com)

A full syl­labus on longtermism

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

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

Against the nor­ma­tive re­al­ist’s wager

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

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

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

Right­ing past wrongs by re­cov­er­ing past lives via simulation

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

[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 need for con­ver­gence on an eth­i­cal theory

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

Against pop­u­la­tion ethics

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

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

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

The ig­no­rance of nor­ma­tive re­al­ism bot

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

Para­dox of Hedonism

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

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

Cas­par Oester­held: Mul­ti­verse-wide cooperation

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

Prac­ti­cal ethics given moral uncertainty

William_MacAskillJan 31, 2012, 5:00 AM
23 points
5 comments3 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

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

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)

Multi-Fac­tor De­ci­sion Mak­ing Math

Elliot TempleOct 30, 2022, 4:46 PM
2 points
13 comments37 min readEA link
(criticalfallibilism.com)

The Com­pa­ra­bil­ity of Sub­jec­tive Scales

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

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

richard_ngoAug 3, 2020, 9:21 AM
15 points
0 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

What We Owe the Fu­ture, Chap­ter 1

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

The Alie­na­tion Ob­jec­tion to Consequentialism

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

Even non-the­ists should act as if the­ism is true

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

Emerg­ing Paradigms: The Case of Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence Safety

Eleni_AJan 18, 2023, 5:59 AM
16 points
0 comments19 min readEA link

New Publi­ca­tion: Effec­tive Altru­ism and Reli­gion

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

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

Mo­gensen & MacAskill, ‘The paral­y­sis ar­gu­ment’

PabloJul 19, 2021, 2:04 PM
15 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(quod.lib.umich.edu)

How Im­por­tant Is This Cen­tury For Hu­man­ity?

MiguelNov 4, 2022, 4:08 PM
1 point
0 comments4 min readEA link
(www.whitehatstoic.com)

Care-Full With Our Next Gen­er­a­tion!

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

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)

Pos­si­ble mis­con­cep­tions about (strong) longtermism

JackMMar 9, 2021, 5:58 PM
90 points
43 comments19 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

The Pos­si­bil­ity of an On­go­ing Mo­ral Catastrophe

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

[Question] Is im­per­sonal benev­olence a virtue?

Xing Shi CaiJul 18, 2021, 8:24 AM
8 points
8 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

Ex­is­ten­tial risk pes­simism and the time of perils

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

Pro­posal: PhilPapers Sur­vey for EA Community

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

Mo­ral­ity as “Co­or­di­na­tion” vs “Altru­ism”

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

For­mal­iz­ing Ex­tinc­tion Risk Re­duc­tion vs. Longtermism

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

Do­ing good while clueless

Milan GriffesFeb 15, 2018, 5:04 AM
46 points
8 comments6 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)

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

Up­date your be­liefs with a “Yes/​No de­bate”

jorgesNov 3, 2022, 12:05 AM
18 points
4 comments4 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

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

List of lists of EA-re­lated open philos­o­phy re­search questions

ChanaMessingerMay 3, 2022, 4:14 PM
17 points
3 comments1 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)

At­tempt at un­der­stand­ing the role of moral philos­o­phy in moral progress

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

X-risk Miti­ga­tion Does Ac­tu­ally Re­quire Longter­mism

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

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

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

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

Does this solve Pas­cal’s Mug­gings?

SanjayAug 28, 2022, 2:44 PM
15 points
26 comments5 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)

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)

Be­ware eth­i­cal sys­tems with­out re­pug­nant conclusions

Ezra NewmanAug 2, 2022, 4:47 PM
12 points
2 comments1 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)

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)

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)

Five Books of Peter Singer which Changed My Life

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

Holism, Lack of Knowl­edge, and Transhumanism

Jung EnthusiastDec 9, 2020, 2:08 AM
−9 points
0 comments1 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

De­scrip­tive Pop­u­la­tion Ethics and Its Rele­vance for Cause Prioritization

David_AlthausApr 3, 2018, 1:31 PM
66 points
8 comments13 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)

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

Will Values and Com­pe­ti­tion De­cou­ple?

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

The most im­por­tant un­solved prob­lems in ethics

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

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

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

[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

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

Fu­ture peo­ple might not ex­ist

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

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

Ruairí Don­nelly: Mo­ral trade

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

The moral prob­lem of offsetting

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

Ar­gu­ments for moral indefinability

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

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

Rea­sons and Per­sons: Watch the­o­ries eat themselves

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[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

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)

SBF Deal­book Thread

DaedalusNov 30, 2022, 11:02 PM
24 points
34 comments1 min readEA link
(www.nytimes.com)

Blame­wor­thi­ness for Avoid­able Psy­cholog­i­cal Harms

Cullen 🔸Feb 9, 2021, 2:46 AM
38 points
13 comments9 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)

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)

My Meta-Ethics and Pos­si­ble Im­pli­ca­tions for EA

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

Tiny Prob­a­bil­ities of Vast Utilities: Con­clud­ing Arguments

kokotajlodNov 15, 2018, 9:47 PM
33 points
6 comments10 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)

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

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

The im­por­tance of how you weigh it

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

(Video) Why Ve­gans Are So Annoying

cryptopsyfan69420Sep 6, 2021, 4:11 AM
4 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)

[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

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 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

Jonathan Court­ney: Eth­i­cal obli­ga­tions (light­ning talk)

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

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

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

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

Mini sum­maries of GPI papers

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

Against Irre­ducible Normativity

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

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

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

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

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)

Ac­tu­ally pos­si­ble: thoughts on Utopia

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

High stakes in­stru­men­tal­ism and billion­aire philanthropy

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

Against Irre­ducible Normativity

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

Mus­lims for Effec­tive Altruism

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

[Question] What makes a state­ment a nor­ma­tive state­ment?

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

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

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

evhubNov 10, 2022, 11:31 PM
713 points
86 comments3 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

[Question] What good are you do­ing to­day?

Prof.WeirdNov 20, 2020, 2:39 PM
4 points
0 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

Ter­ror­ism in our Univer­sity En­vi­ron­ment: Please keep us in your thoughts and prayers.

emmannaemekaNov 24, 2022, 3:30 AM
8 points
4 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

On longter­mism, Bayesi­anism, and the dooms­day argument

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

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

In Defence of Tem­po­ral Dis­count­ing in Longter­mist Ethics

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

Wor­ld­view uncertainty

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

Th­e­sis Sum­mary and Open Ques­tions: Nor­ma­tive Uncer­tainty and In­for­ma­tion Value

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

Care and demandingness

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

Longter­mist (es­pe­cially x-risk) ter­minol­ogy has bi­as­ing assumptions

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

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

Mo­ral Anti-Real­ism: In­tro­duc­tion & Summary

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

Effec­tive vs Altruism

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

Robert Noz­ick’s Me­ta­verse Machine

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

In­tegrity for consequentialists

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

Mo­ral anti-re­al­ists don’t have to bite bullets

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

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

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

Mind is uncountable

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

Sor­ti­tion Model of Mo­ral Uncertainty

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

Stan­ley the Uncer­tain [Creative Writ­ing Con­test]

AkashOct 28, 2021, 8:12 PM
33 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

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

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)

[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

Shouldn’t it mat­ter to the vic­tim?

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

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

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

Are there lives not worth liv­ing?

PofJan 13, 2023, 5:48 PM
7 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

[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

Re­place Neglectedness

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

Do­ing EA Better

ConcernedEAsJan 17, 2023, 8:09 PM
261 points
383 comments70 min readEA link

The Pos­si­bil­ity of an On­go­ing Mo­ral Catas­tro­phe (Sum­mary)

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

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)

Wheel­ing and deal­ing: An in­ter­nal bar­gain­ing ap­proach to moral uncertainty

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

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)

On in­finite ethics

Joe_CarlsmithJan 31, 2022, 7:17 AM
94 points
29 comments51 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)

A Con­ver­sa­tion with Daniel Kahneman

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

Global life satis­fac­tion distribution

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

Welfare Es­ti­ma­tion 102: Welfare is a Myth

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

An In­ter­view With Kat Woods

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

Let us know how psy­chol­ogy can help in­crease your impact

IngaOct 21, 2022, 10:32 AM
30 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

Rocks teach you about, like, liv­ing with your­self.

PhosphorousDec 6, 2022, 4:26 AM
25 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

Effec­tive Peer Sup­port Net­work in FTX crisis (Up­date)

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

What is a neu­tral life like?

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

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

LW4EA: Sab­bath hard and go home

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

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

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

Sym­pa­thec­tomies—The New Lobotomy

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

Th­e­ses on Sleep

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

Stress—effec­tive ways to re­duce it

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

In­tro­duc­ing Effec­tive Self-Help

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

Men­tal Health Providers and Re­sources Listed on the Men­tal Health Nav­i­ga­tor Website

EmilyJan 9, 2023, 8:47 PM
43 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

New ver­sion of Men­tal Health Nav­i­ga­tor website

EmilyJan 8, 2023, 9:37 PM
22 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

Gene Ther­apy for Mood Improvement

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

Mea­sur­ing Good Better

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

The end of eco­nomic growth? Un­in­tended con­se­quences of a de­clin­ing population

Global Priorities InstituteSep 30, 2020, 1:29 PM
5 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Aging re­search and pop­u­la­tion ethics

Emanuele_AscaniApr 28, 2019, 7:20 AM
25 points
11 comments6 min readEA link

Is the rea­son­ing of the Repug­nant Con­clu­sion valid?

AdithyaApr 21, 2022, 11:33 PM
3 points
16 comments5 min readEA link

The Wages of North-At­lantic Bias

Sach WryAug 19, 2022, 12:34 PM
8 points
2 comments17 min readEA link

On fu­ture peo­ple, look­ing back at 21st cen­tury longtermism

Joe_CarlsmithMar 22, 2021, 8:21 AM
102 points
13 comments12 min readEA link

GiveWell’s Char­ity Recom­men­da­tions Re­quire Tak­ing a Con­tro­ver­sial Stance on Pop­u­la­tion Ethics

MichaelDickensMay 17, 2016, 1:51 AM
30 points
52 comments8 min readEA link

Win­ners of the EA Crit­i­cism and Red Team­ing Contest

LizkaOct 1, 2022, 1:50 AM
226 points
41 comments19 min readEA link

Older peo­ple may place less moral value on the far future

SanjayOct 22, 2019, 2:47 PM
22 points
9 comments14 min readEA link

Why I am prob­a­bly not a longtermist

Denise_MelchinSep 23, 2021, 5:24 PM
256 points
49 comments8 min readEA link

[Question] Why do so few EAs and Ra­tion­al­ists have chil­dren?

Milan GriffesMar 14, 2021, 5:05 AM
9 points
80 comments1 min readEA link

Are You Sure You Want To Donate To The Against Malaria Foun­da­tion?

MichaelPlantDec 5, 2016, 6:57 PM
40 points
48 comments7 min readEA link

Is EA just about pop­u­la­tion growth?

LuceAlexisJan 17, 2021, 8:55 AM
6 points
10 comments5 min readEA link

Hilary Greaves: Repug­nant interventions

EA GlobalAug 28, 2015, 4:14 PM
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

An Is­sue with the Repug­nant Conclusion

matthewpDec 31, 2021, 12:48 PM
−1 points
6 comments2 min readEA link

Should effec­tive al­tru­ists have chil­dren?

Jeffray_BehrNov 14, 2020, 11:53 PM
20 points
6 comments10 min readEA link

Free-Rang­ing Dog Welfare in In­dia as a Cause Area

Akash KulgodAug 8, 2022, 2:53 PM
13 points
5 comments8 min readEA link

[Question] How can I ap­ply per­son-af­fect­ing views to Effec­tive Altru­ism?

The_Lord's_Servant_280Apr 29, 2020, 4:57 AM
19 points
21 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Why do EAs have chil­dren?

Luke FreemanMar 15, 2021, 3:17 AM
31 points
24 comments1 min readEA link

The Long-Term Fu­ture: An At­ti­tude Survey

Aron_VallinderSep 16, 2019, 3:57 PM
62 points
15 comments8 min readEA link

Pod­cast: Krister Bykvist on moral un­cer­tainty, ra­tio­nal­ity, metaethics, AI and fu­ture pop­u­la­tions

Gus DockerOct 21, 2021, 3:17 PM
8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.utilitarianpodcast.com)

In­ter­gen­er­a­tional equity un­der catas­trophic cli­mate change

Global Priorities InstituteOct 31, 2017, 1:33 PM
3 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Global Pri­ori­ties In­sti­tute: Re­search Agenda

Aaron Gertler 🔸Jan 20, 2021, 8:09 PM
22 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Pop­u­la­tion Ethics Without Ax­iol­ogy: A Framework

Lukas_GloorAug 2, 2022, 3:59 PM
82 points
18 comments26 min readEA link

Shar­ing the World with Digi­tal Minds

Aaron Gertler 🔸Dec 1, 2020, 8:00 AM
12 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.nickbostrom.com)

St. Peters­burg De­mon – a thought ex­per­i­ment that makes me doubt Longter­mism

wuschelMay 23, 2022, 11:49 AM
48 points
39 comments2 min readEA link

Stupid Rea­sons to Have More Kids

johnburidanApr 17, 2022, 8:00 PM
11 points
12 comments5 min readEA link

Nar­ra­tion: “Against neu­tral­ity about cre­at­ing happy lives”

D0TheMathJul 10, 2021, 7:13 PM
12 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(anchor.fm)

Talk - ‘Car­ing for the Far Fu­ture’

YadavDec 9, 2022, 4:58 PM
13 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(youtu.be)

SIA > SSA, part 4: In defense of the pre­sump­tu­ous philosopher

Joe_CarlsmithOct 1, 2021, 7:00 AM
8 points
0 comments22 min readEA link

The weight of suffer­ing (An­dreas Mo­gensen)

Global Priorities InstituteAug 17, 2023, 8:21 AM
48 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Re­duc­ing ex­is­ten­tial risks or wild an­i­mal suffer­ing?

stijnbruersOct 28, 2018, 9:51 AM
3 points
24 comments11 min readEA link

Does Effec­tive Altru­ism Lead to the Altru­is­tic Repug­nant Con­clu­sion?

RandomEAJul 27, 2017, 8:49 PM
2 points
14 comments2 min readEA link

LW4EA: Philo­soph­i­cal Landmines

JeremyApr 26, 2022, 2:53 AM
9 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Ex­is­ten­tial risk as com­mon cause

technicalitiesDec 5, 2018, 2:01 PM
49 points
22 comments5 min readEA link

Should we be spend­ing no less on al­ter­nate foods than AI now?

Denkenberger🔸Oct 29, 2017, 11:28 PM
38 points
9 comments16 min readEA link

8 pos­si­ble high-level goals for work on nu­clear risk

MichaelA🔸Mar 29, 2022, 6:30 AM
46 points
4 comments16 min readEA link

Thoughts on “The Case for Strong Longter­mism” (Greaves & MacAskill)

MichaelA🔸May 2, 2021, 6:00 PM
30 points
21 comments2 min readEA link

Pri­ori­tiz­ing x-risks may re­quire car­ing about fu­ture people

eliflandAug 14, 2022, 12:55 AM
182 points
38 comments6 min readEA link
(www.foxy-scout.com)

Cost-Effec­tive­ness of Foods for Global Catas­tro­phes: Even Bet­ter than Be­fore?

Denkenberger🔸Nov 19, 2018, 9:57 PM
29 points
5 comments10 min readEA link

Ques­tion­ing the Value of Ex­tinc­tion Risk Reduction

Red Team 8Jul 7, 2022, 4:44 AM
61 points
9 comments27 min readEA link

AGI safety and los­ing elec­tric­ity/​in­dus­try re­silience cost-effectiveness

Ross_TiemanNov 17, 2019, 8:42 AM
31 points
10 comments37 min readEA link

Toby Ord: Fireside Chat and Q&A

EA GlobalJul 21, 2020, 4:23 PM
14 points
0 comments26 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Help me find the crux be­tween EA/​XR and Progress Studies

jasoncrawfordJun 2, 2021, 6:47 PM
119 points
37 comments3 min readEA link

Toby Ord at EA Global: Reconnect

EA GlobalMar 20, 2021, 7:00 AM
11 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Toby Ord: Fireside chat (2018)

EA GlobalMar 1, 2019, 3:48 PM
20 points
0 comments28 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Thoughts on “A case against strong longter­mism” (Mas­rani)

MichaelA🔸May 3, 2021, 2:22 PM
39 points
33 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] How wor­ried should I be about a child­less Dis­ney­land?

Will BradshawOct 28, 2019, 3:32 PM
31 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

Notes from “Cog­ni­tion, welfare, and the prob­lem of in­ter­species com­par­i­sons”

Barry GrimesNov 16, 2021, 9:17 AM
30 points
0 comments11 min readEA link

The prob­lem of ar­tifi­cial suffering

mlsbtSep 24, 2021, 2:43 PM
50 points
3 comments9 min readEA link

Does Crit­i­cal Flicker-Fu­sion Fre­quency Track the Sub­jec­tive Ex­pe­rience of Time?

Jason SchukraftAug 3, 2020, 1:30 PM
68 points
20 comments26 min readEA link

Cere­bral organoids

ForumiteJul 20, 2022, 8:12 PM
17 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Ja­son Schukraft: Mo­ral stand­ing and cause pri­ori­ti­za­tion

EA GlobalOct 24, 2020, 7:56 PM
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Differ­ences in the In­ten­sity of Valenced Ex­pe­rience across Species

Jason SchukraftOct 30, 2020, 1:13 AM
94 points
42 comments52 min readEA link

Up­com­ing AMA with Luke Muehlhauser on con­scious­ness and moral pa­tient­hood (June 28, start­ing 9am Pa­cific)

Julia_Wise🔸Jun 21, 2017, 9:56 PM
13 points
14 comments1 min readEA link

Why an­i­mal char­i­ties are much more effec­tive than hu­man ones

utilitarian01Apr 8, 2019, 5:48 PM
14 points
15 comments2 min readEA link

Oc­to­puses (Prob­a­bly) Don’t Have Nine Minds

Bob FischerDec 12, 2022, 11:59 AM
94 points
19 comments10 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

Wide­spread val­ues brainstorming

brb243Mar 15, 2022, 12:45 PM
9 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

De­sir­able? AI qualities

brb243Mar 21, 2022, 10:05 PM
7 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

The Niet­zschean Challenge to Effec­tive Altruism

Richard Y Chappell🔸Aug 29, 2022, 2:39 PM
102 points
15 comments7 min readEA link
(rychappell.substack.com)

[Question] Ne­glected bio­di­ver­sity pro­tec­tion by EA.

Danny ForestSep 4, 2021, 8:19 AM
13 points
14 comments1 min readEA link

Ste­fan Schu­bert: Naïve effec­tive al­tru­ism and the dan­ger of ne­glect­ing psychology

EA GlobalOct 24, 2020, 7:56 PM
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Non-Con­se­quen­tial­ist Con­sid­er­a­tions For Cause-Pri­oritza­tion Part 2

Parker_WhitfillDec 3, 2018, 12:41 AM
9 points
1 comment11 min readEA link

You Don’t Need To Jus­tify Everything

TW123Jun 12, 2022, 6:36 PM
144 points
11 comments3 min readEA link

Con­sid­er­ing Con­sid­er­ate­ness: Why com­mu­ni­ties of do-good­ers should be ex­cep­tion­ally considerate

Stefan_SchubertMay 31, 2017, 10:41 PM
58 points
15 comments1 min readEA link

The Welfare Range Table

Bob FischerNov 7, 2022, 10:19 AM
365 points
17 comments8 min readEA link

How much dona­tions are needed to neu­tral­ise the an­nual x-risk foot­print of the mean hu­man?

Vasco Grilo🔸Sep 22, 2022, 6:41 AM
8 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Might stop­ping mis­car­riages be a very im­por­tant cause area?

SaraAzubuikeDec 5, 2021, 5:18 PM
16 points
13 comments2 min readEA link

Why I Don’t Ac­count for Mo­ral Uncertainty

[deleted]Jan 11, 2015, 3:52 AM
25 points
16 comments2 min readEA link

Uncer­tainty and Wild An­i­mal Welfare

abrahamroweJul 19, 2019, 1:33 PM
24 points
0 comments8 min readEA link

Will MacAskill on nor­ma­tive uncertainty

lukeprogApr 9, 2014, 3:27 PM
2 points
0 comments8 min readEA link

Is Our Uni­verse A New­comb’s Para­dox Si­mu­la­tion?

Jordan ArelMay 15, 2022, 7:28 AM
16 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

Ideal gov­er­nance (for com­pa­nies, coun­tries and more)

Holden KarnofskyApr 7, 2022, 4:54 PM
80 points
19 comments14 min readEA link

Chris­tian Tarsney on fu­ture bias and a pos­si­ble solu­tion to moral fanaticism

80000_HoursMay 5, 2021, 7:38 PM
7 points
0 comments113 min readEA link

[Question] What should we ac­tu­ally do in re­sponse to moral un­cer­tainty?

John Bridge 🔸May 30, 2022, 9:48 AM
4 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

How might we be wildly wrong?

William_MacAskillSep 4, 2013, 7:19 PM
3 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Meth­ods for im­prov­ing un­cer­tainty anal­y­sis in EA cost-effec­tive­ness models

FroolowAug 29, 2022, 6:07 PM
127 points
8 comments37 min readEA link

Light­ning talks from EA Global: San Fran­cisco (2018)

EA GlobalJun 8, 2018, 8:51 PM
7 points
0 comments11 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Democratis­ing Risk—or how EA deals with critics

CarlaZoeCDec 28, 2021, 3:05 PM
273 points
311 comments4 min readEA link

[Pod­cast] Ajeya Co­tra on wor­ld­view di­ver­sifi­ca­tion and how big the fu­ture could be

Eevee🔹Jan 22, 2021, 11:57 PM
57 points
20 comments1 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

Fair Col­lec­tive Effec­tive Altruism

Jobst Heitzig (vodle.it)Nov 28, 2022, 1:35 PM
6 points
1 comment5 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

New re­search on moral weights

GiveWellDec 4, 2019, 11:57 AM
42 points
4 comments2 min readEA link
(blog.givewell.org)

Re­view and Sum­mary of ‘Mo­ral Uncer­tainty’

finmOct 2, 2020, 3:41 PM
37 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(www.finmoorhouse.com)

A bar­gain­ing-the­o­retic ap­proach to moral uncertainty

Global Priorities InstituteAug 8, 2019, 1:41 PM
3 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

SoGive’s moral weights—please take part!

SanjayApr 5, 2021, 10:47 PM
26 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Brian To­masik – Rea­sons to Be Nice to Other Value Systems

Tessa A 🔸Jan 17, 2014, 12:28 AM
24 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(longtermrisk.org)

Seek­ing feed­back on new EA-al­igned eco­nomics paper

jhOct 21, 2021, 9:19 PM
35 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

Nor­ma­tive Uncer­tainty and the Depen­dence Problem

Gordon Seidoh WorleyMar 23, 2020, 5:29 PM
15 points
4 comments2 min readEA link
(philpapers.org)

Nor­ma­tive Uncer­tainty and Prob­a­bil­is­tic Mo­ral Knowledge

Gordon Seidoh WorleyNov 11, 2019, 8:26 PM
13 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(philpapers.org)

Mo­ral un­cer­tainty and pub­lic jus­tifi­ca­tion (Bar­ret and Sch­midt, 2021)

Global Priorities InstituteOct 22, 2021, 9:57 AM
4 points
3 comments3 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Ajeya Co­tra on wor­ld­view di­ver­sifi­ca­tion and how big the fu­ture could be

80000_HoursJan 18, 2021, 8:35 AM
14 points
1 comment125 min readEA link

“Dis­ap­point­ing Fu­tures” Might Be As Im­por­tant As Ex­is­ten­tial Risks

MichaelDickensSep 3, 2020, 1:15 AM
96 points
18 comments25 min readEA link

Re­sponse to Re­cent Crit­i­cisms of Longtermism

abDec 13, 2021, 1:36 PM
249 points
31 comments28 min readEA link

[Question] What rea­son is there NOT to ac­cept Pas­cal’s Wager?

Transient AltruistAug 4, 2022, 2:29 PM
31 points
82 comments1 min readEA link

Prob­lems and Solu­tions in In­finite Ethics

Ben_West🔸Jan 1, 2015, 8:47 PM
14 points
74 comments5 min readEA link

New Global Pri­ori­ties In­sti­tute work­ing pa­pers—and an up­dated ver­sion of “The case for strong longter­mism”

Global Priorities InstituteAug 9, 2021, 4:57 PM
46 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

A Ten­ta­tive Solu­tion To In­finite Ethics

OmnizoidMar 15, 2022, 6:25 PM
6 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

The Case for Strong Longtermism

Global Priorities InstituteSep 3, 2019, 1:17 AM
14 points
1 comment3 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

A Hap­piness Man­i­festo: Why and How Effec­tive Altru­ism Should Re­think its Ap­proach to Max­imis­ing Hu­man Welfare

MichaelPlantOct 25, 2018, 3:48 PM
77 points
31 comments39 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­tion to Longtermism

finmJan 27, 2021, 4:01 PM
79 points
13 comments11 min readEA link
(effectivealtruism.org)

Is my blog too provoca­tive for a group or­ga­nizer?

Ariel PontesJul 10, 2022, 1:51 PM
22 points
4 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] Re­search help CO2 offset­ting/​com­pen­sa­tion pro­grams: How to eval­u­ate them for im­pact? Alter­na­tives to car­bon offset­ting? etc.

Marek VenenyApr 27, 2022, 8:24 AM
1 point
4 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What are some re­spon­si­bil­ity bun­dle bar­gains for medium-sized en­ter­prises?

brb243Jan 10, 2022, 7:38 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Covid offsets and car­bon offsets

BenJul 23, 2020, 9:19 PM
22 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Car­bon Offsets as an Non-Altru­is­tic Expense

DavidmanheimDec 3, 2019, 11:38 AM
25 points
7 comments2 min readEA link

Launch­ing 60,000,000,000 Chick­ens: A Give Well-Style CEA Spread­sheet for An­i­mal Welfare

AppliedDivinityStudiesJun 4, 2021, 9:08 PM
35 points
19 comments3 min readEA link

Meat Externalities

Richard Y Chappell🔸Jul 11, 2022, 3:23 AM
80 points
12 comments2 min readEA link
(rychappell.substack.com)

Don’t sweat diet?

Gregory Lewis🔸Oct 22, 2015, 8:15 PM
18 points
41 comments5 min readEA link

At what cost, car­nivory?

Gregory Lewis🔸Oct 29, 2015, 11:37 PM
13 points
13 comments15 min readEA link

[Pod­cast] Si­mon Beard on Parfit, Cli­mate Change, and Ex­is­ten­tial Risk

finmJan 28, 2021, 7:47 PM
11 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(hearthisidea.com)

Aid Scep­ti­cism and Effec­tive Altruism

William_MacAskillJul 3, 2019, 11:34 AM
71 points
13 comments2 min readEA link

Why not give 90%?

HaydenWMar 23, 2020, 2:53 AM
57 points
26 comments7 min readEA link

The Priv­ilege of Earn­ing To Give

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Jan 14, 2015, 1:59 AM
96 points
38 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Is the cur­rent defi­ni­tion of EA not rep­re­sen­ta­tive of hits-based giv­ing?

VenkateshApr 26, 2021, 4:37 AM
44 points
14 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Would an EA have di­rected their ca­reer on fix­ing the sub­prime mort­gage crisis of ’07-’08 be­fore it hap­pened?

VenkateshApr 6, 2021, 4:07 PM
26 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism’s Im­plicit Epistemology

Violet HourOct 18, 2022, 1:38 PM
129 points
12 comments28 min readEA link

A philo­soph­i­cal in­tro­duc­tion to effec­tive altruism

William_MacAskillJul 10, 2019, 1:40 PM
56 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

Be­hav­ioral/​Cog­ni­tive Psy­chol­ogy and EA

Jung EnthusiastDec 13, 2020, 4:15 PM
−4 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

[Closed] Hiring a math­e­mat­i­cian to work on the learn­ing-the­o­retic AI al­ign­ment agenda

VanessaApr 19, 2022, 6:49 AM
53 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

Alie­na­tion and meta-ethics (or: is it pos­si­ble you should max­i­mize he­lium?)

Joe_CarlsmithJan 15, 2021, 7:06 AM
19 points
5 comments10 min readEA link

Log­i­cal Foun­da­tions of Govern­ment Policy

FCCCOct 10, 2020, 4:11 PM
5 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

An ar­ti­cle that summs up meta-eth­i­cal con­clu­sions that can be de­rived from Univer­sal Dar­winism taken to extremes

kiwi0fruitFeb 7, 2022, 5:27 PM
0 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

A sum­mary of Ni­cholas Beck­stead’s writ­ing on Bayesian Ethics

Jaime SevillaSep 4, 2019, 9:44 AM
41 points
1 comment6 min readEA link

Nat­u­ral­ism and AI alignment

Michele CampoloApr 24, 2021, 4:20 PM
17 points
3 comments7 min readEA link

Effec­tive al­tru­ism in the gar­den of ends

tyleraltermanAug 31, 2022, 8:47 PM
289 points
45 comments23 min readEA link

Neil Sin­hab­abu on metaethics and world gov­ern­ment for re­duc­ing ex­is­ten­tial risk

Gus DockerFeb 2, 2022, 8:23 PM
7 points
0 comments83 min readEA link
(www.utilitarianpodcast.com)

Killing the ants

Joe_CarlsmithFeb 7, 2021, 11:16 PM
229 points
18 comments8 min readEA link

If you want to dis­agree with effec­tive al­tru­ism, you need to dis­agree one of these three claims

Benjamin_ToddSep 25, 2016, 3:01 PM
31 points
7 comments7 min readEA link

[Question] Why “cause area” as the unit of anal­y­sis?

riceissaJan 25, 2021, 2:53 AM
85 points
21 comments4 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism is a Ques­tion (not an ide­ol­ogy)

HelenOct 16, 2014, 4:16 AM
283 points
48 comments4 min readEA link

What is effec­tive al­tru­ism?

William_MacAskillMay 13, 2013, 4:00 AM
15 points
23 comments2 min readEA link

Effi­cient char­ity: do unto oth­ers...

Scott AlexanderSep 3, 2013, 4:40 AM
83 points
13 comments6 min readEA link

Ste­fan Schu­bert: Un­der­stand­ing cause-neutrality

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

In­ves­ti­gat­ing Ide­ol­ogy: want to earn money, help EA and/​or me? Then check this out; it may be a mighty ne­glected cause

DovAug 12, 2022, 5:52 AM
3 points
6 comments22 min readEA link

Mul­ti­verse-wide co­op­er­a­tion in a nutshell

Lukas_GloorNov 2, 2017, 10:17 AM
84 points
10 comments16 min readEA link

Why effec­tive al­tru­ism used to be like ev­i­dence-based medicine. But isn’t anymore

James Snowden🔸Aug 12, 2015, 3:13 PM
29 points
16 comments1 min readEA link

What al­tru­ism means to me

Neel NandaAug 15, 2020, 8:25 AM
14 points
0 comments7 min readEA link
(www.neelnanda.io)

Prospect­ing for Gold (Owen Cot­ton-Bar­ratt)

EA GlobalNov 18, 2016, 12:11 PM
44 points
5 comments21 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the Longter­mism Fel­low­ship of EA Mu­nich—Ap­ply!

JacobAug 21, 2022, 8:08 AM
20 points
10 comments2 min readEA link

Longter­mism VS Neart­er­mism: Are we be­ing long-winded or short-sighted?

Prof.WeirdFeb 4, 2022, 9:08 AM
−2 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism is an Ide­ol­ogy, not (just) a Question

James FodorJun 28, 2019, 7:18 AM
167 points
46 comments16 min readEA link
(thegodlesstheist.com)

Why I’m skep­ti­cal about un­proven causes (and you should be too)

Peter WildefordAug 7, 2013, 4:00 AM
54 points
1 comment11 min readEA link

Defin­ing Effec­tive Altruism

William_MacAskillJul 19, 2019, 10:49 AM
112 points
22 comments5 min readEA link

An em­bar­rass­ment of riches

Julia_Wise🔸Nov 19, 2015, 6:23 PM
55 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism and Mean­ing in Life

extra_ordinaryMar 18, 2019, 6:12 AM
106 points
7 comments12 min readEA link

Be­ware sur­pris­ing and sus­pi­cious convergence

Gregory Lewis🔸Jan 24, 2016, 7:11 PM
219 points
21 comments15 min readEA link

The world is full of wasted motion

Neel NandaAug 5, 2020, 8:41 PM
21 points
2 comments11 min readEA link
(www.neelnanda.io)

[Question] What val­ues would EA want to pro­mote?

James_BanksJul 9, 2020, 6:35 AM
34 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Book launch: “Effec­tive Altru­ism: Philo­soph­i­cal Is­sues” (Oxford)

Aaron Gertler 🔸Sep 18, 2019, 12:23 AM
37 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

Aim high, even if you fall short

Julia_Wise🔸Oct 11, 2014, 5:26 PM
151 points
11 comments2 min readEA link

Effec­tive­ness is a Con­junc­tion of Multipliers

Thomas KwaMar 25, 2022, 6:44 PM
259 points
34 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] What are the key on­go­ing de­bates in EA?

richard_ngoMar 8, 2020, 4:12 PM
74 points
54 comments1 min readEA link

Some Modes of Think­ing about EA

EdoAradNov 9, 2019, 5:54 PM
54 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

The Case for Education

SamuelKnocheAug 14, 2020, 5:26 PM
24 points
10 comments10 min readEA link

[Pod­cast] Tom Moynihan on why prior gen­er­a­tions missed some of the biggest pri­ori­ties of all

Eevee🔹Jun 25, 2021, 3:39 PM
12 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

How to be a high im­pact philoso­pher, part II

William_MacAskillSep 27, 2012, 4:00 AM
0 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] Have You Been Main­tain­ing Your Healthy Core Four?

Prof.WeirdNov 22, 2020, 11:37 AM
13 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Pur­chase fuzzies and utilons separately

EliezerYudkowskyDec 27, 2019, 2:21 AM
122 points
4 comments5 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Con­cerns/​Thoughts over in­ter­na­tional aid, longter­mism and philo­soph­i­cal notes on speak­ing with Larry Temkin.

Ben YeohJul 27, 2022, 7:51 PM
35 points
1 comment12 min readEA link

Epistemic Trade: A quick proof sketch with one example

LinchMay 11, 2021, 9:05 AM
19 points
3 comments8 min readEA link

Get­ting money out of poli­tics and into charity

Eric NeymanOct 6, 2020, 5:28 AM
113 points
47 comments3 min readEA link

$5 billion in moral trade sur­plus?

Andrew_SBFeb 4, 2015, 5:22 PM
16 points
15 comments1 min readEA link

Ap­ply to join SHELTER Week­end this August

Joel BeckerJun 15, 2022, 2:21 PM
108 points
19 comments2 min readEA link

An­i­mal welfare EA and per­sonal dietary options

RobBensingerJan 5, 2022, 6:53 PM
17 points
10 comments3 min readEA link

Jesse Clif­ton: Open-source learn­ing — a bar­gain­ing approach

EA GlobalOct 18, 2019, 6:05 PM
10 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

[Question] Mo­ral trades for tax deductibility

OscarD🔸Jun 21, 2022, 11:39 PM
5 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Be­ware fric­tions from al­tru­is­tic value differences

Magnus VindingDec 1, 2022, 6:58 PM
97 points
7 comments5 min readEA link

Com­mon ground for longtermists

Tobias_BaumannJul 29, 2020, 10:26 AM
83 points
8 comments4 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism is Not a Competition

Peter WildefordJan 5, 2017, 2:11 AM
73 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Build­ing Co­op­er­a­tive Episte­mol­ogy (Re­sponse to “EA has a Ly­ing Prob­lem”, among other things)

RaemonJan 11, 2017, 5:45 PM
31 points
79 comments3 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism and Free Riding

sbehmerMar 27, 2020, 7:12 PM
124 points
39 comments11 min readEA link

Com­par­a­tive ad­van­tage in the tal­ent mar­ket

Denise_MelchinApr 11, 2018, 11:48 PM
27 points
23 comments7 min readEA link

On Values Spreading

MichaelDickensSep 11, 2015, 3:57 AM
33 points
13 comments11 min readEA link

Co­op­er­a­tion in a move­ment sup­port­ing di­verse causes

Owen Cotton-BarrattSep 23, 2014, 10:47 AM
18 points
15 comments3 min readEA link

[Link] EAF Re­search agenda: “Co­op­er­a­tion, Con­flict, and Trans­for­ma­tive Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence”

stefan.torgesJan 17, 2020, 1:28 PM
64 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

AI safety and con­scious­ness re­search: A brainstorm

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

Let’s talk about Im­pos­tor syn­drome in AI safety

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

Cli­mate Change: Known Un­knowns, Ques­tion­able Sub­sti­tutabil­ity, and Look­ing Beyond Car­bon Taxes

mchr3kAug 14, 2023, 10:54 PM
7 points
0 comments12 min readEA link

Over­think­ing “Only Be a Story”

Mica WhiteJul 17, 2022, 10:53 PM
6 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

New Prince­ton course on longtermism

Calvin_BakerSep 1, 2023, 8:31 PM
88 points
6 comments6 min readEA link

No, se­ri­ously, it’s vir­tu­ous to re­pair the world.

HonoreDBDec 11, 2024, 5:34 PM
13 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(outlandishclaims.substack.com)

80k pod­cast epi­sode on sen­tience in AI systems

rgbMar 15, 2023, 8:19 PM
85 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Dona­tion offsets for ChatGPT Plus subscriptions

Jeffrey LadishMar 16, 2023, 11:11 PM
76 points
10 comments3 min readEA link

Com­mon fal­la­cies in hu­man reasoning

basil.iciousSep 25, 2023, 2:35 PM
1 point
0 comments5 min readEA link
(basil08.github.io)

Free­dom un­der Nat­u­ral­is­tic Dualism

Arturo MaciasJun 27, 2023, 2:29 PM
2 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.jneurophilosophy.com)

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)

How to make in­de­pen­dent re­search more fun (80k After Hours)

rgbMar 17, 2023, 10:25 PM
28 points
0 comments25 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

Mo­ral Li­cens­ing ~ the mak­ings of a very nega­tive-sum game?

Non-zero-sum JamesFeb 8, 2024, 1:39 PM
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(nonzerosum.games)

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)

[Question] Thoughts on con­se­quen­tial­ism?

Noah BirnbaumNov 3, 2023, 2:41 AM
3 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Gen­er­at­ing More Sur­plus in Mo­ral Trades

Pete RowlettFeb 6, 2024, 7:58 PM
9 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

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

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

The Colo­nial­ism of William MacAskill’s What We Owe the Future

VivianJul 4, 2023, 3:48 PM
−16 points
5 comments6 min readEA link

The Self in Ar­tifi­cial Con­scious­ness: A Bud­dhist In­ves­ti­ga­tion into Ad­vanced AI

Ryan CombesOct 24, 2023, 4:11 AM
10 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(drive.google.com)

Part 4: Reflec­tions af­ter at­tend­ing the CEA In­tro to EA Vir­tual Pro­gram in Sum­mer 2023 – Chap­ter 4: Our Fi­nal Cen­tury?

Andreas PNov 1, 2023, 7:12 AM
8 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Con­struc­tive Dis­cus­sion and Think­ing Method­ol­ogy for Se­vere Si­tu­a­tions in­clud­ing Ex­is­ten­tial Risks

AinoJul 8, 2023, 12:04 AM
1 point
0 comments7 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

Effec­tive Altru­ism and Eastern Ethics

EA LifestylesJul 7, 2023, 3:27 PM
75 points
16 comments3 min readEA link
(ealifestyles.substack.com)

Com­mon-sense sen­tience is dubious

Timothy ChanMar 21, 2023, 3:32 PM
23 points
4 comments7 min readEA link

Why We Need a Tax­on­omy of Mo­ral Concern

Maryam Ali KhanJul 13, 2023, 12:26 PM
18 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

The Mar­tian Cap­i­tal­ist: A Hilar­i­ous Es­cape Plan from the 1%

George_A (Digital Intelligence Rights Initiative) Jul 14, 2023, 4:15 PM
−9 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Agnes Cal­lard on our fu­ture, the hu­man quest, and find­ing purpose

Tobias HäberliMar 22, 2023, 12:29 PM
3 points
0 comments21 min readEA link

How the Jains built a cul­ture of re­spect for non­hu­man animals

siwani agrawalJul 11, 2023, 6:51 PM
38 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

AI Risk and Sur­vivor­ship Bias—How An­dreessen and LeCun got it wrong

stepanlosJul 14, 2023, 5:10 PM
5 points
1 comment6 min readEA link

The God­dess of Every­thing Else—The Animation

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

Mis­con­cep­tions About Rad­i­cal Lifes­pan Extension

Arjun KhemaniJul 16, 2023, 8:50 AM
4 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(arjunkhemani.substack.com)

The Dilemma of Ul­ti­mate Technology

AinoJul 20, 2023, 12:24 PM
1 point
0 comments7 min readEA link

Valuism—an ap­proach to life for you to consider

spencergJul 19, 2023, 3:23 PM
33 points
7 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

Every­thing is one whole

KAraxJul 19, 2023, 10:13 PM
−12 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

BOUNTY AVAILABLE: AI ethi­cists, what are your ob­ject-level ar­gu­ments against AI notkil­lev­ery­oneism?

Peter BerggrenJul 6, 2023, 5:37 PM
0 points
19 comments2 min readEA link

Adquira sen­ti­men­tos calorosos e útilons separadamente

AE Brasil / EA BrazilJul 20, 2023, 6:48 PM
4 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

Sen­tience In­sti­tute 2023 End of Year Summary

MichaelDelloNov 27, 2023, 12:11 PM
29 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

En­courag­ing a he­do­nium shock­wave as a long term cause area

Felix BauerAug 20, 2024, 1:24 PM
16 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Selfless Givers vs. Other­ish Givers

Rakefet CohenJul 23, 2023, 9:00 AM
5 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

The Drown­ing Child Can Be Read In Two Direc­tions

Tomas B.Oct 24, 2023, 4:12 PM
0 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

The value of cost-effec­tive­ness anal­y­sis (David Thorstad)

smountjoyJul 29, 2023, 10:54 PM
20 points
6 comments1 min readEA link
(ineffectivealtruismblog.com)

The Ul­ti­mate Ar­gu­ment Against Deon­tol­ogy And For Utilitarianism

OmnizoidJul 29, 2023, 9:36 AM
15 points
9 comments8 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

De­ci­sion The­ory: A (Nor­ma­tive) Introduction

ParetoOptimalSep 6, 2023, 11:46 AM
0 points
3 comments3 min readEA link
(paretooptimal.substack.com)

The Con­cept of Boundary Layer in Lan­guage Games and Its Im­pli­ca­tions for AI

MirageMar 24, 2023, 1:50 PM
1 point
0 comments7 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

[Question] Which Effec­tive Altru­ism groups are ad­dress­ing the is­sue of fer­til­ity rates?

MysteryMeatOct 6, 2023, 1:09 PM
−18 points
19 comments1 min readEA link

革新的な思いやり

EA JapanJul 26, 2023, 1:35 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link

Per­sonal Reflec­tions on Longtermism

NatKiiluAug 17, 2023, 9:22 PM
76 points
12 comments8 min readEA link

The AI Endgame: A coun­ter­fac­tual to AI al­ign­ment by an AI Safety newcomer

Andreas PDec 1, 2023, 5:49 AM
2 points
5 comments3 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)

Longter­mism or Ret­ro­spec­tivism: The More Effec­tive Utili­tar­ian Alter­na­tive.

HoomanOct 8, 2023, 12:26 PM
0 points
5 comments4 min readEA link

Solu­tions to prob­lems with Bayesianism

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

Effec­tive Altru­ism and Essentialism

Rakefet Cohen Ben-AryeAug 3, 2023, 2:57 AM
8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Pre­dict­ing what fu­ture peo­ple value: A terse in­tro­duc­tion to Ax­iolog­i­cal Futurism

Jim BuhlerMar 24, 2023, 7:15 PM
62 points
10 comments2 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

Part 3: Reflec­tions af­ter at­tend­ing the CEA In­tro to EA Vir­tual Pro­gram in Sum­mer 2023 – Chap­ter 3: Rad­i­cal Empathy

Andreas POct 13, 2023, 5:40 PM
3 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

How to cre­ate a “good” AGI

mreichertDec 8, 2023, 10:47 AM
1 point
0 comments10 min readEA link

The hid­den com­plex­ity of “moral cir­cles”

James FavilleOct 25, 2023, 8:19 PM
33 points
3 comments29 min readEA link

Ex­plor­ing Tacit Linked Premises with GPT

RomeoStevensMar 24, 2023, 10:50 PM
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Are there cause pri­or­ti­za­tions es­ti­mates for s-risks sup­port­ers?

jackchang110Mar 27, 2023, 10:32 AM
33 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

On­line Work­ing /​ Com­mu­nity Meetup for the Abo­li­tion of Suffering

Ruth_SeleoMar 27, 2023, 6:44 PM
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

【練習問題】革新的な思いやり

EA JapanAug 4, 2023, 12:43 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Recom­men­da­tions for char­i­ties for an­i­mal suffer­ing offsets?

rajlegoAug 22, 2023, 2:35 PM
22 points
16 comments1 min readEA link

Em­pa­tia Radicale

EA ItalyDec 31, 2022, 4:08 AM
1 point
0 comments6 min readEA link

[Opz­ionale] Ri­sorse da es­plo­rare su ‘Em­pa­tia Rad­i­cale’

EA ItalyDec 31, 2022, 4:57 AM
1 point
0 comments2 min readEA link

Pes­simism about AI Safety

Max_He-HoApr 2, 2023, 7:57 AM
5 points
0 comments25 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

New­comb’s Para­dox Explained

Alex VellinsMar 31, 2023, 9:26 PM
2 points
11 comments2 min readEA link

Hu­man Values and AGI Risk | William James

William JamesMar 31, 2023, 10:30 PM
1 point
0 comments12 min readEA link

Prob­a­bil­ities, Pri­ori­ti­za­tion, and ‘Bayesian Mind­set’

Violet HourApr 4, 2023, 10:16 AM
70 points
6 comments24 min readEA link

Le idee “es­treme”

EA ItalyDec 31, 2022, 4:15 AM
1 point
0 comments5 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

Eser­cizio per “Em­pa­tia Rad­i­cale” (15 minuti)

EA ItalyDec 31, 2022, 4:54 AM
1 point
0 comments1 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

What if we are the jel­lyfish of this mo­ment?

Dave Cortright 🔸Apr 3, 2023, 5:32 AM
4 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

The Orthog­o­nal­ity Th­e­sis is Not Ob­vi­ously True

OmnizoidApr 5, 2023, 9:08 PM
18 points
12 comments9 min readEA link

What the Mo­ral Truth might be makes no differ­ence to what will happen

Jim BuhlerApr 9, 2023, 5:43 PM
40 points
9 comments3 min readEA link

The Real­ity Mind­set and the Mythol­ogy Mindset

James AitchisonApr 10, 2023, 3:18 PM
5 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(jamesaitchison.co.uk)

Prob­lem: Guaran­tee­ing the right to life for ev­ery­one, in the in­finitely long term (part 1)

lamparitaAug 18, 2024, 12:13 PM
2 points
2 comments8 min readEA link

[Question] How many hours did it take you to un­der­t­sand all of the con­cepts on each cause ar­eas?

jackchang110Apr 13, 2023, 4:29 PM
1 point
3 comments1 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

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

[Question] Should effec­tive al­tru­ists ad­vise mid­dle-class (‘small’) donors in a rad­i­cally differ­ent way com­pared to how they ad­vise wealthy (‘large’) donors?

Maxim VandaeleApr 17, 2023, 5:29 PM
10 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

[Opz­ionale] Il lun­goter­minismo e l’at­tivismo per gli animali

EA ItalyJan 17, 2023, 8:17 PM
1 point
0 comments4 min readEA link

[Opz­ionale] Perché prob­a­bil­mente non sono una lungoterminista

EA ItalyJan 17, 2023, 6:12 PM
1 point
0 comments8 min readEA link

Scien­tism vs. people

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

Com­mu­ni­ca­tor Ap­ti­tude—Fun The­ory Sum­mary and Writeup

Leopold BrownApr 20, 2023, 7:43 AM
3 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

What We Deserve

Leopold BrownApr 20, 2023, 7:43 AM
4 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

Im­ple­men­ta­tional Con­sid­er­a­tions for Digi­tal Consciousness

Derek ShillerJul 30, 2023, 10:15 PM
35 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

moral­ity for the rad­i­cal pessimist

Anon777Apr 21, 2023, 10:50 AM
0 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] How could effec­tive al­tru­ists help im­prove work­ing con­di­tions in low-in­come coun­tries?

Maxim VandaeleApr 22, 2023, 2:42 PM
26 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

A flaw in a sim­ple ver­sion of wor­ld­view diversification

NunoSempereMay 15, 2023, 6:12 PM
45 points
22 comments6 min readEA link
(nunosempere.com)

Creat­ing a “Con­science Calcu­la­tor” to Guard-Rail an AGI

Sean SweeneyAug 12, 2024, 3:58 PM
1 point
11 comments17 min readEA link

My ver­sion of Si­mu­lacra Levels

kokotajlodApr 26, 2023, 7:06 PM
24 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

[Question] How come there isn’t that much fo­cus in EA on re­search into whether /​ when AI’s are likely to be sen­tient?

callumApr 27, 2023, 10:09 AM
83 points
23 comments1 min readEA link

Devel­op­ing Coun­ter­fac­tual Trust in Mo­ral Trade

Pete RowlettFeb 8, 2024, 6:10 PM
5 points
1 comment7 min readEA link

Im­pli­ca­tions of ev­i­den­tial co­op­er­a­tion in large worlds

Lukas FinnvedenAug 23, 2023, 12:43 AM
79 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(lukasfinnveden.substack.com)

The 3-P-Approach

Esther22Dec 12, 2023, 7:09 PM
5 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Sum­mary: High risk, low re­ward: A challenge to the as­tro­nom­i­cal value of ex­is­ten­tial risk mitigation

Global Priorities InstituteSep 12, 2023, 4:31 PM
70 points
20 comments5 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Un­der­stand how other peo­ple think: a the­ory of wor­ld­views.

spencergMay 3, 2023, 3:57 AM
22 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

The Eth­i­cal Basilisk Thought Experiment

KyrtinAug 23, 2023, 1:24 PM
1 point
6 comments1 min readEA link

I spent a lot of time and money on one dog. Do I need help?

tobiasleenaertDec 10, 2023, 11:26 AM
94 points
25 comments5 min readEA link

In­te­grat­ing the PACS In­sti­tute into the Effec­tive Altru­ism Move­ment: Seek­ing Reflec­tions and Advice

AndersReaganMay 7, 2023, 9:02 PM
11 points
6 comments2 min readEA link

Philoso­phers Against Malaria Fundraiser

mhendric🔸Dec 1, 2023, 4:12 PM
16 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Meet the Olympians bring­ing effec­tive al­tru­ism to ath­lete cli­mate investing

George TimmsMay 12, 2023, 9:50 AM
19 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(sustainabilityreport.com)

Virtue vs Obli­ga­tion (The Ca­plan-Singer De­bate)

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

How The EthiSizer Al­most Broke `Story’

Velikovsky_of_NewcastleMay 8, 2023, 4:58 PM
1 point
0 comments5 min readEA link

Blog up­date: Reflec­tive altruism

David ThorstadMay 14, 2023, 11:07 AM
169 points
22 comments9 min readEA link

Part 2: Reflec­tions af­ter at­tend­ing the CEA In­tro to EA Vir­tual Pro­gram in Sum­mer 2023 – Chap­ter 2: Differ­ences in Impact

Andreas POct 8, 2023, 5:50 AM
7 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

New en­cy­clo­pe­dia en­try on util­i­tar­i­anism and Chris­tian theology

dominicroserAug 23, 2023, 1:08 PM
53 points
5 comments1 min readEA link
(www.saet.ac.uk)

How to in­crease EAs pro­duc­tive hours by up to 35%

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

Against Ad­dress­ing Root Causes

OmnizoidFeb 4, 2025, 4:45 PM
31 points
13 comments4 min readEA link

Judg­ments of­ten smug­gle in im­plicit standards

richard_ngoMay 15, 2023, 6:50 PM
46 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Fun­da­men­tals of Global Pri­ori­ties Re­search in Eco­nomics Syllabus

poliboniAug 8, 2023, 12:16 PM
74 points
1 comment8 min readEA link

Ori­gin and al­ign­ment of goals, mean­ing, and morality

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

My Left Kidney

MathiasKB🔸Oct 27, 2023, 11:31 AM
107 points
9 comments1 min readEA link
(www.astralcodexten.com)

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

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

Rad­i­cal Longter­mism and the Se­duc­tion of End­less Growth: A Cri­tique of William MacAskill’s ‘What We Owe the Fu­ture’

Alexander Herwix 🔸Sep 14, 2023, 2:43 PM
−13 points
15 comments1 min readEA link
(perspecteeva.substack.com)

In defense of the Gap.

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

[Question] Is EA a well-in­ten­tioned ver­sion of ‘sur­vival of the fittest’ (or largest)?

FionaConnerSep 14, 2023, 5:39 PM
11 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

Ca­reer Con­ver­sa­tion Week: Philos­o­phy Grad­u­ate Student

mhendric🔸Sep 13, 2023, 9:32 PM
13 points
1 comment7 min readEA link

AISN #18: Challenges of Re­in­force­ment Learn­ing from Hu­man Feed­back, Microsoft’s Se­cu­rity Breach, and Con­cep­tual Re­search on AI Safety

Center for AI SafetyAug 8, 2023, 3:52 PM
12 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
(newsletter.safe.ai)

[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)

“Char­ity” as a con­fla­tion­ary al­li­ance term

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

[Linkpost] Fran­cis at a Fac­tory Farm – Fran­cis of As­sisi and an­i­mal welfare

EA for ChristiansOct 13, 2023, 11:44 AM
23 points
2 comments4 min readEA link
(christandcounterfactuals.substack.com)

[Question] How do in­spired con­tri­bu­tions and ex­ter­nal­ized costs fac­tor in cost-effec­tive­ness calcu­la­tions?

VictorWAug 8, 2023, 9:43 PM
12 points
8 comments2 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

The EthiSizer Ar­gu­ment & The Green Bank Equation

Velikovsky_of_NewcastleMay 19, 2023, 3:19 PM
1 point
0 comments2 min readEA link

The Rel­a­tive Eth­i­cal­ness of Clini­cal Trial Designs

Jonathan NankivellNov 10, 2023, 9:00 PM
16 points
4 comments4 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the Publi­ca­tion of An­i­mal Liber­a­tion Now

Peter SingerMay 19, 2023, 4:34 PM
473 points
16 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] Is ev­ery moral the­ory in­her­ently con­se­quen­tial­ist?

Chris PopaAug 9, 2023, 2:36 PM
3 points
3 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

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

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

Bob Ja­cobs’s Quick takes

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

[Linkpost] My doubts about longtermism

JoshuaBlakeJun 3, 2023, 10:57 AM
12 points
7 comments1 min readEA link
(joshuablake.github.io)

Beyond Hu­mans: Why All Sen­tient Be­ings Mat­ter in Ex­is­ten­tial Risk

Teun van der WeijMay 31, 2023, 9:21 PM
12 points
0 comments13 min readEA link

My Jour­ney Towards Effec­tive Altru­ism: Em­brac­ing Our Cos­mic Responsibility

JordanStoneNov 15, 2023, 12:32 PM
12 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

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

Mo­ral Spillover in Hu­man-AI Interaction

Katerina ManoliJun 5, 2023, 3:20 PM
17 points
1 comment13 min readEA link

What is Progress and Why I think so­cial sci­ence is the key to the fu­ture.

Anthony FuJun 6, 2023, 8:51 AM
3 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(anthonyfu.wixsite.com)

Is there a case for Prona­tal­ism as an effec­tive cause area?

ben.smithJun 7, 2023, 12:42 AM
19 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

Large episte­molog­i­cal con­cerns I should maybe have about EA a priori

LuiseJun 7, 2023, 2:11 PM
115 points
16 comments8 min readEA link

How do we live a good and eth­i­cal life?

Matthew CollinsAug 27, 2023, 10:36 PM
3 points
1 comment18 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

There is only one goal or drive—only self-per­pet­u­a­tion counts

freest oneJun 13, 2023, 1:37 AM
2 points
4 comments8 min readEA link

It’s OK to eat shrimp: EAs Make In­valid In­fer­ences About Fish Qualia and Mo­ral Patienthood

MikhailSaminNov 13, 2023, 4:51 PM
−4 points
34 comments7 min readEA link

[Question] What’s the Limit for Cost-Effec­tive­ness?

alamo 2914Aug 10, 2023, 11:38 PM
4 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

Should we con­tinue dis­miss­ing most ideas about EA (with­out a fair trial)?

DovJun 20, 2023, 5:24 PM
−11 points
4 comments14 min readEA link

Ne­glect­ed­ness is not enough

Victor MattaJun 18, 2023, 9:00 AM
2 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Prin­ci­ples for AI Welfare Research

jeffseboJun 19, 2023, 11:30 AM
138 points
16 comments13 min readEA link

[Question] How Can Com­pu­ta­tion Cause Con­scious­ness?

Matthew BarberNov 21, 2023, 11:33 PM
2 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

What We Owe The Fu­ture: A Buried Es­say

haven_worshamJun 20, 2023, 5:49 PM
19 points
0 comments16 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

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

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

Ra­tion­al­ity Club at UChicago

Noah BirnbaumOct 17, 2023, 2:13 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link

We Prob­a­bly Shouldn’t Solve Consciousness

SilicaFeb 10, 2024, 7:12 AM
33 points
5 comments16 min readEA link

#190 – On whether the US is con­scious (Eric Sch­witzgebel on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_HoursJun 12, 2024, 3:14 PM
7 points
0 comments20 min readEA link

AI welfare vs. AI rights

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

Seek­ing Ad­vice: Kid­ney Dona­tion for a Ger­man Na­tional

ScodischargeFeb 12, 2024, 4:12 PM
3 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Deep dive into Cap­i­tal­ism and Marx­ism

Michał TerpiłowskiJun 12, 2024, 8:19 PM
−4 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(youtu.be)

A Bridge Between Utili­tar­i­anism & Stoicism

Jonathan MoregårdFeb 13, 2024, 11:03 PM
2 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
(honestliving.substack.com)

Is­sues in (Meta) Nor­ma­tive Ethics

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

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)

Does nat­u­ral se­lec­tion fa­vor AIs over hu­mans?

cdkgOct 3, 2024, 7:02 PM
21 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(link.springer.com)

Mo­ral Trade Pro­posal with 95-100% Surplus

Pete RowlettFeb 16, 2024, 4:24 PM
47 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

“Arc­tic In­stincts? The uni­ver­sal prin­ci­ples of Arc­tic psy­cholog­i­cal adap­ta­tion and the ori­gins of East Asian psy­chol­ogy”—Call for Re­view­ers (Seeds of Science)

rogersbacon1Feb 16, 2024, 3:28 PM
2 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Rais­ing Welfare for Lab Rodents

xander_balwitJul 21, 2024, 3:46 PM
22 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(press.asimov.com)

The Greek Philos­o­phy Knowl­edge-Ac­tion Gap

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

Pod­cast with David Thorstad: Ev­i­dence, Uncer­tainty, and Ex­is­ten­tial Risk

Leah PiersonFeb 11, 2025, 11:47 PM
34 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(www.biounethical.com)

My fa­vorite ar­ti­cles by Brian To­masik and what they are about

Timothy ChanFeb 24, 2024, 6:10 PM
77 points
4 comments4 min readEA link

Is it pos­si­bly de­sir­able for sen­tient ASI to ex­ter­mi­nate hu­mans?

DuckruckJun 18, 2024, 3:20 PM
0 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Chris­ti­an­ity and Longter­mism Work­shop | DC May 17

JDBaumanFeb 27, 2024, 3:10 PM
28 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Crit­i­cal-Set Views, Bio­graph­i­cal Iden­tity, and the Long Term

EJTFeb 28, 2024, 2:30 PM
9 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(philpapers.org)

Offset­ting is more ex­pen­sive than it’s assumed

emre kaplan🔸Feb 28, 2024, 9:16 AM
21 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Crabs in a Bucket ~ Or Links in a Chain

Non-zero-sum JamesFeb 28, 2024, 11:04 PM
3 points
4 comments2 min readEA link
(nonzerosum.games)

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

#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

The Drown­ing Child Ar­gu­ment Is Sim­ply Correct

OmnizoidJul 24, 2024, 5:02 AM
22 points
21 comments5 min readEA link

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

Noah Varley🔸Mar 7, 2024, 2:31 PM
24 points
7 comments7 min readEA link

Is RLHF cruel to AI?

HznDec 16, 2024, 2:01 PM
−1 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

AI, Fac­tory Farm­ing and In­tu­itive Mo­ral Responses

DeepBlueWhaleJun 20, 2024, 12:43 PM
10 points
2 comments1 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

Clar­ify­ing two uses of “al­ign­ment”

Matthew_BarnettMar 10, 2024, 5:41 PM
36 points
28 comments4 min readEA link

The de­mand­ing­ness of the future

anormativeMar 13, 2024, 1:02 PM
6 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

New pod­cast epi­sode with Matti Wilks: On the Psy­chol­ogy of Mo­ral Mo­ti­va­tions and Effec­tive Altru­ism | Walter Veit Pod­cast

Walter VeitMar 13, 2024, 9:34 PM
7 points
0 comments1 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)

Cri­tique of the no­tion that im­pact fol­lows a power-law distribution

Sarah WeilerMar 14, 2024, 10:28 AM
89 points
89 comments18 min readEA link

Are we prob­a­bly in the mid­dle of hu­man­ity? (Five an­throp­ics thought ex­per­i­ments)

carter allen🔸Mar 14, 2024, 6:45 PM
9 points
2 comments10 min readEA link

The Fermi para­dox, and why suffer­ing re­duc­tion re­duces ex­tinc­tion risk

Alex SchwalbMar 17, 2024, 12:26 AM
12 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Balanc­ing safety and waste

Daniel_FriedrichMar 17, 2024, 10:57 AM
6 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

Deaf­ness is tangential

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

Any­one else not get­ting any­where with med­i­ta­tion?

tobiasleenaertDec 19, 2023, 11:47 AM
29 points
10 comments2 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)

Reflec­tions on The Bud­dhist and the Ethicist

Charlie HarrisonMar 21, 2024, 5:21 PM
23 points
7 comments4 min readEA link

On green

Joe_CarlsmithMar 21, 2024, 5:38 PM
61 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] How much (more) data do we need to claim ex­treme cost-effec­tive­ness?

Niek Versteegde, founder GOAL 3Oct 1, 2024, 12:36 PM
28 points
14 comments6 min readEA link

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

Very Ac­cu­rate Ances­tor Si­mu­la­tion: Prac­ti­cal­ity and Ethics

MythopoeistMar 25, 2024, 9:38 AM
0 points
1 comment13 min readEA link

Sum­mary: Against the Sin­gu­lar­ity Hy­poth­e­sis (David Thorstad)

Noah Varley🔸Mar 27, 2024, 1:48 PM
63 points
10 comments5 min readEA link

Cel­e­brat­ing Ben­jamin Lay (died on this day 265 years ago)

LizkaFeb 8, 2024, 2:33 PM
154 points
11 comments8 min readEA link

Ger­man trans­la­tion and nar­ra­tion of util­i­tar­i­anism.net

stephan dalueggeJun 25, 2024, 1:59 PM
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

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

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

[Question] Talk­ing about EA with friend who has an in­tel­lec­tual dis­abil­ity — any ad­vice?

Hayven FrienbyDec 28, 2023, 5:45 PM
15 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing The Mo­ral Cir­cle: Who Mat­ters, What Mat­ters, and Why

jeffseboJun 25, 2024, 9:10 PM
135 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

new trol­ley problem

brighter_futureDec 26, 2023, 4:06 AM
−11 points
6 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

Free agents

Michele CampoloDec 27, 2023, 8:21 PM
19 points
2 comments13 min readEA link

Sum­mary: In Defence of Fa­nat­i­cism (Hay­den Wilk­in­son)

Noah Varley🔸Jan 15, 2024, 2:21 PM
30 points
3 comments6 min readEA link

A Challenge to Effec­tive Altru­ism’s Premises

Fuggazi NomineiJan 8, 2024, 3:53 PM
−19 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

Parfit + Singer + Aliens = ?

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

Deep athe­ism and AI risk

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

In Pur­suit of Prac­ti­cal Ethics: Eu­daimonic Utili­tar­i­anism with Kan­tian Priors

Joseph_ChuJan 8, 2024, 6:58 AM
11 points
2 comments6 min readEA link

[Question] Whose life mat­ters more—a baby’s or an adult’s?

dstudioscodeJan 7, 2024, 9:02 AM
9 points
21 comments1 min readEA link

What “Sav­ing Pri­vate Ryan” can teach us about EA

Moritz Stumpe 🔸Jan 12, 2024, 3:18 PM
18 points
6 comments5 min readEA link

Ex­plor­ing Er­god­ic­ity in the Con­text of Longtermism

Arthur_Jongejans Mar 29, 2024, 10:14 AM
36 points
13 comments10 min readEA link

Illu­mi­natea—A Pro­posal for EA Reform

Leftism virtue cafeApr 1, 2024, 10:51 AM
96 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

Sav­ing the world sucks

Defective AlturismJan 12, 2024, 9:28 AM
−9 points
2 comments3 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Mo­ral relativity

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

My favourite ar­gu­ments against per­son-af­fect­ing views

EJTApr 2, 2024, 10:57 AM
84 points
36 comments17 min readEA link

The Ra­tionale-Shaped Hole At The Heart Of Forecasting

dschwarzApr 2, 2024, 3:51 PM
155 points
14 comments11 min readEA link

What kind of ev­i­dence would change your mind on cap­i­tal­ism*?

FrisoApr 2, 2024, 7:23 PM
23 points
12 comments1 min readEA link

A Utili­tar­ian Frame­work with an Em­pha­sis on Self-Es­teem and Rights

Sean SweeneyApr 8, 2024, 11:15 AM
7 points
0 comments30 min readEA link

Paradigm Shifts—change ev­ery­thing… ex­cept al­most everything

Non-zero-sum JamesNov 26, 2024, 5:04 PM
2 points
1 comment3 min readEA link
(nonzerosum.games)

An­nounc­ing a New S-Risk In­tro­duc­tory Fellowship

Alistair WebsterJul 1, 2024, 2:37 PM
54 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Value Of Life For Hu­mans Com­pared To Other An­i­mals?

dstudioscodeApr 8, 2024, 12:20 AM
2 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Quick look: ap­pli­ca­tions of chaos theory

ElizabethAug 19, 2024, 2:07 PM
16 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

In­ves­ti­gat­ing the role of agency in AI x-risk

Corin KatzkeApr 8, 2024, 3:12 PM
22 points
3 comments40 min readEA link
(www.convergenceanalysis.org)

Costs of Embodiment

algekalipsoJul 30, 2024, 8:41 PM
18 points
1 comment14 min readEA link

Reimag­in­ing Malev­olence: A Primer on Malev­olence and Im­pli­ca­tions for EA

Kenneth_DiaoApr 11, 2024, 12:50 PM
28 points
3 comments44 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

Em­piri­cal vs. Math­e­mat­i­cal Joints of Nature

ElizabethJul 2, 2024, 10:43 PM
12 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

A Biolog­i­cal Crux for AI Consciousness

Bradford SaadJul 3, 2024, 12:36 PM
11 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

Why should I care?

Cengizhan BüyükdağJul 31, 2024, 1:52 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link
(open.substack.com)

A sim­ple ar­gu­ment for the bad­ness of hu­man extinction

Matthew RendallApr 17, 2024, 10:35 AM
4 points
14 comments2 min readEA link

Ma­chine thought on a continuum

arshtJul 4, 2024, 1:45 PM
5 points
1 comment4 min readEA link
(mistakesweremade.substack.com)

MHFC Spring ’24 Grants

wtroyJul 4, 2024, 12:46 AM
54 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Should I Re­port A Co­caine User?

dstudioscodeJan 14, 2024, 9:16 PM
−18 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

Ex­plicit Ethics

Richard Y Chappell🔸Aug 20, 2024, 4:17 PM
12 points
4 comments2 min readEA link
(www.goodthoughts.blog)

Mo­ral Con­sid­er­a­tions In De­sign­ing AI Systems

Hans GundlachJul 5, 2024, 6:13 PM
8 points
1 comment7 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

The case for con­scious AI: Clear­ing the record [AI Con­scious­ness & Public Per­cep­tion]

Jay LuongJul 5, 2024, 8:29 PM
3 points
7 comments8 min readEA link

How Do We Know What We Know: The Tri­par­tite The­ory of Knowl­edge

Siya SawhneyJul 6, 2024, 10:18 AM
2 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

[Linkpost] A Case for AI Consciousness

cdkgJul 6, 2024, 2:56 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(philpapers.org)

How to re­duce risks re­lated to con­scious AI: A user guide [Con­scious AI & Public Per­cep­tion]

Jay LuongJul 5, 2024, 2:19 PM
9 points
1 comment15 min readEA link

[Question] AI con­scious­ness & moral sta­tus: What do the ex­perts think?

Jay LuongJul 6, 2024, 3:27 PM
0 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Open Let­ter to Young EAs

Leif WenarOct 11, 2024, 4:15 PM
14 points
44 comments1 min readEA link

Should we Max­i­mize the Geo­met­ric Ex­pec­ta­tion?

A.H.Apr 19, 2024, 8:06 PM
12 points
6 comments9 min readEA link

[Question] What novel, ac­tion­able ad­vice does longter­mism offer?

YarrowApr 19, 2024, 5:34 AM
8 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

“Cap­i­tal­ism”: talk­ing past each other

YarrowApr 20, 2024, 12:07 PM
13 points
15 comments2 min readEA link

Ex­tinc­tion risk and longter­mism: a broader cri­tique of Thorstad

Matthew RendallApr 21, 2024, 1:55 PM
31 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

Pri­ors and Prejudice

MathiasKB🔸Apr 22, 2024, 2:59 PM
256 points
14 comments7 min readEA link

Ba­sic game the­ory and how you can do a bunch of good in ~3 Hours. (de­vel­op­ing ar­ti­cle.)

No longer EA-affiliatedOct 10, 2024, 4:30 AM
−3 points
2 comments7 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

Pri­ori­tiz­ing AI Welfare Means Pri­ori­tiz­ing Con­scious­ness Research

CurtTiggesJul 8, 2024, 5:22 AM
24 points
0 comments10 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)

[Question] Is there any way to be con­fi­dent that hu­man­ity won’t keep em­ploy­ing mass tor­ture of an­i­mals for mil­lions of years in the fu­ture?

EduardoApr 28, 2024, 6:43 PM
46 points
15 comments1 min readEA link

Su­per ad­di­tivity of consciousness

Arturo MaciasApr 29, 2024, 3:39 PM
1 point
7 comments2 min readEA link

The Guardian calls EA “cultish” and ac­cuses the late FHI of “Eu­gen­ics on Steroids”

Damin Curtis🔹Apr 28, 2024, 1:44 PM
13 points
12 comments1 min readEA link
(www.theguardian.com)

The Tyranny of Ex­is­ten­tial Risk

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

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

On Ar­tifi­cial Wisdom

Jordan ArelJul 11, 2024, 7:14 AM
22 points
1 comment14 min readEA link

Progress in Qualia

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

How to make hard choices, Ruth Chang

Ben YeohAug 2, 2024, 1:10 PM
22 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Deep Honesty

AletheophileMay 7, 2024, 6:23 PM
50 points
7 comments9 min readEA link

Aban­don­ing func­tion­al­ism: Some in­tu­ition pumps

Alfredo Parra 🔸Jul 11, 2024, 9:23 AM
74 points
6 comments15 min readEA link

Sur­vey—Psy­cholog­i­cal Im­pact of Long-Term AI Engagement

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

The Align­ment Prob­lem No One is Talk­ing About

Non-zero-sum JamesMay 14, 2024, 10:42 AM
5 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

The role of effec­tive giv­ing in effec­tive al­tru­ism (MCF 2024 memo)

Sjir Hoeijmakers🔸Oct 2, 2024, 1:11 PM
20 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] Build­ing a Fo­rum?

Aaron GraifmanSep 8, 2024, 8:54 PM
3 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Differ­ence-Mak­ing Risk Aver­sion: An Exploration

Hayley ClatterbuckJul 12, 2024, 3:00 PM
20 points
7 comments17 min readEA link

Hear Me Out: What If We Made Lifelong Learn­ing a Reli­gion?

Nicolas ForeroJul 11, 2024, 8:28 PM
4 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(nicolasforero.substack.com)

Sen­si­tive as­sump­tions in longter­mist modeling

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

Mo­ral Philos­o­phy is Alchemy: Sam Har­ris Isn’t Pasta Man

Value in the VoidMay 22, 2024, 12:07 PM
−3 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(valueinthevoid.substack.com)

How sci­ence be­come unscientific

Michał TerpiłowskiMay 22, 2024, 7:33 PM
−1 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(youtu.be)

On the abo­li­tion of man

Joe_CarlsmithJan 18, 2024, 6:17 PM
71 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

How to Give Com­ing AGI’s the Best Chance of Figur­ing Out Ethics for Us

Sean SweeneyMay 23, 2024, 7:44 PM
1 point
1 comment10 min readEA link

Why con­scious­ness matters

EdLopezMay 24, 2024, 12:33 PM
0 points
0 comments7 min readEA link
(medium.com)

Low Fer­til­ity is a De­growth Paradise

Maxwell TabarrokMay 25, 2024, 5:35 PM
3 points
3 comments3 min readEA link
(www.maximum-progress.com)

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

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

An Epistemic Defense of Round­ing Down

Hayley ClatterbuckJul 15, 2024, 2:51 PM
49 points
7 comments27 min readEA link

Truth­seek­ing is the ground in which other prin­ci­ples grow

ElizabethMay 27, 2024, 1:11 AM
106 points
17 comments1 min readEA link

My Prob­lem with Ve­ganism and Deontology

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

Cost, Not Sacrifice

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

Why AI Reg­u­la­tion Vio­lates the First Amendment

LockeJun 1, 2024, 8:44 PM
−15 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

Grant­mak­ers should give more feedback

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

A longter­mist case for di­rected panspermia

AhrenbachJan 21, 2024, 7:29 PM
1 point
1 comment4 min readEA link

Why I’m skep­ti­cal about us­ing sub­jec­tive time ex­pe­rience to as­sign moral weights

Andreas_MogensenJan 22, 2024, 11:45 AM
67 points
15 comments7 min readEA link

[Question] Ques­tion for longtermism

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

Agents that act for rea­sons: a thought experiment

Michele CampoloJan 24, 2024, 4:48 PM
7 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

[Question] What are the best defenses of hu­man lives be­ing worth liv­ing?

Tejas SubramaniamJan 24, 2024, 9:41 PM
9 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Philo­soph­i­cal Guidance

Jonathan MoregårdJan 24, 2024, 11:23 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Em­bark­ing on a Jour­ney of Reflec­tion: Seek­ing In­sights and Feedback

Ole Johan BondahlOct 3, 2024, 9:58 AM
−1 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism FAQ

OmnizoidDec 16, 2024, 4:26 PM
18 points
1 comment12 min readEA link

Sum­mary: Max­i­mal Clue­less­ness (An­dreas Mo­gensen)

Noah Varley🔸Feb 6, 2024, 2:49 PM
39 points
17 comments4 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism and Reflec­tive Equilibrium

Noah BirnbaumJun 6, 2024, 2:49 PM
13 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(irrationalitycommunity.substack.com)

🇺🇳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

Effec­tive Lo­cal Altruism

MatthewKSep 28, 2024, 5:14 AM
4 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Cap­i­tal­is­ing on Trust—A Karmic Simulation

Non-zero-sum JamesSep 28, 2024, 5:42 AM
2 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(nonzerosum.games)

De­bat­ing AI’s Mo­ral Sta­tus: The Most Hu­mane and Silliest Thing Hu­mans Do(?)

Soe LinSep 29, 2024, 5:01 AM
5 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

Con­ta­gious Beliefs—Si­mu­lat­ing Poli­ti­cal Alignment

Non-zero-sum JamesOct 13, 2024, 1:38 AM
4 points
3 comments2 min readEA link
(nonzerosum.games)

Effec­tive Altru­ism and the Hu­man Mind [5000 Word Sum­mary]

Alex Savard 🔸Aug 27, 2024, 5:18 PM
141 points
5 comments20 min readEA link

Is un­der­stand­ing the moral sta­tus of digi­tal minds a press­ing world prob­lem?

Cody_FenwickSep 30, 2024, 8:50 AM
42 points
0 comments34 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

The need for a cen­tral repos­i­tory of OH biosafety and biose­cu­rity surveillance data in­clud­ing data ag­gre­ga­tion, col­la­tion and visualization

Pamela KajumbaDec 17, 2024, 5:58 PM
9 points
2 comments7 min readEA link

The ELYSIUM Proposal

RokoOct 16, 2024, 2:14 AM
−10 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(transhumanaxiology.substack.com)

Wild An­i­mal Suffer­ing Is The Worst Thing In The World

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

Biorisk is smaller in scale than farmed an­i­mal welfare

OGTutzauer🔸Feb 6, 2025, 10:26 AM
34 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

Health Challenges are a Ma­jor Cause of the High Dropout Rate amongst Vegans

Muhan LuoFeb 7, 2025, 1:20 PM
28 points
4 comments9 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

AI data gaps could lead to on­go­ing An­i­mal Suffering

Darkness8i8Oct 17, 2024, 10:52 AM
13 points
3 comments5 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

Why is it so hard to know if you’re helping?

Vasco Grilo🔸Oct 16, 2024, 4:08 PM
59 points
6 comments12 min readEA link
(www.theintrinsicperspective.com)

An am­bi­tious pro­ject of re­defin­ing what sci­ence is based on pro­cess philosophy

Michał TerpiłowskiOct 18, 2024, 5:14 AM
0 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(youtu.be)

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

We should pre­vent the cre­ation of ar­tifi­cial sen­tience

RichardPOct 29, 2024, 12:22 PM
108 points
12 comments15 min readEA link

what to know about words 30ish points on words that i think are some­what non-triv­ial?

danilooooFeb 7, 2025, 2:39 PM
−7 points
0 comments11 min readEA link

The Light­cone solu­tion to the trans­mit­ter room problem

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

[Question] Ques­tion about deontology

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

My giv­ing story: How writ­ing my book led me to take the 10% Pledge

Jacob Bauer🔸Dec 20, 2024, 3:21 PM
24 points
0 comments6 min readEA link
(www.givingwhatwecan.org)

Rea­sons-based choice and cluelessness

JesseCliftonFeb 7, 2025, 10:21 PM
40 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Poli­ti­cal Idolatry

Arturo MaciasFeb 10, 2025, 3:24 PM
0 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] How to es­ti­mate the prob­a­bil­ity of moral as­ser­tions?

lamparitaFeb 10, 2025, 2:36 PM
12 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Abun­dance Es­ti­mates of Three Wild Populations

Rethink PrioritiesOct 28, 2024, 8:26 PM
62 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(rethinkpriorities.org)

[Question] How to com­pare the mag­ni­tude of in­finite prob­lems?

lamparitaFeb 10, 2025, 3:04 PM
4 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Can Knowl­edge Hurt You? The Dangers of In­fo­haz­ards (and Exfo­haz­ards)

A.G.G. LiuFeb 8, 2025, 3:51 PM
12 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

My The­ory of Con­scious­ness: The Ex­pe­riencer and the Indicator

David HammerleDec 23, 2024, 4:07 AM
1 point
1 comment7 min readEA link

The effec­tive and the unequivocal

idea21Dec 23, 2024, 7:19 PM
−1 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Ex­plor­ing Co­op­er­a­tion: The Path to Utopia

DavidmanheimDec 25, 2024, 6:31 PM
10 points
0 comments14 min readEA link
(exploringcooperation.substack.com)

How Much Does Mo­ral­ity Re­quire You To Give?

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

In­tro­duc­tion to Ex­pected Value Fanaticism

Petra KosonenFeb 14, 2025, 12:05 AM
22 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(utilitarianism.net)

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

Mo­ral­ity Is Still Demanding

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

Tur­ing-Test-Pass­ing AI im­plies Aligned AI

RokoDec 31, 2024, 8:22 PM
0 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] The Solu­tion­ary Way—Bridg­ing the Gap Between EA and So­cial Jus­tice?

CJJan 1, 2025, 3:53 AM
3 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

How might we solve the al­ign­ment prob­lem? (Part 1: In­tro, sum­mary, on­tol­ogy)

Joe_CarlsmithOct 28, 2024, 9:57 PM
18 points
0 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)

Indi­rect re­al­ism illus­trated (and why it mat­ters so much for con­scious­ness de­bates)

Alfredo Parra 🔸Feb 16, 2025, 9:20 AM
25 points
8 comments6 min readEA link

Quadrillion-dol­lar bills on the side­walk? Quan­tify­ing an­i­mal welfare changes

AdamCFeb 9, 2025, 10:23 PM
47 points
2 comments13 min readEA link

Why EA can (and should) ap­peal to Christians

asodJan 2, 2025, 1:37 PM
39 points
4 comments4 min readEA link

Im­pli­ca­tions of an­i­mal “life satis­fac­tion”

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

EA over­looks the ‘Why’

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

Park­in­son’s Law and the Ide­ol­ogy of Statistics

BenquoJan 4, 2025, 3:50 PM
2 points
7 comments8 min readEA link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Op­pres­sion and pro­duc­tion are com­pet­ing ex­pla­na­tions for wealth in­equal­ity.

BenquoJan 5, 2025, 2:36 PM
4 points
6 comments8 min readEA link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Vege­tar­ian or not..?

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

Failure of poli­ti­cal, ed­u­ca­tional and tech­nolog­i­cal so­cial changes

idea21Feb 17, 2025, 12:30 AM
−3 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

AI & wis­dom 3: AI effects on amor­tised optimisation

L Rudolf LOct 29, 2024, 1:37 PM
14 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(rudolf.website)

The Quest for a Stone-Free World: Chanca Pie­dra (Phyl­lan­thus niruri) as an Acute and Pro­phy­lac­tic Treat­ment for Kid­ney Stones and Their As­so­ci­ated Ex­treme Nega­tive Valence

algekalipsoFeb 18, 2025, 12:08 AM
58 points
10 comments32 min readEA link

The Dilemma’s Dilemma

Non-zero-sum JamesFeb 19, 2025, 11:56 PM
2 points
1 comment7 min readEA link
(nonzerosum.games)

Pos­si­ble im­por­tance of Effec­tive Altru­ism in the civ­i­liz­ing process

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

How can we get the world to talk about an­i­mals’ in­vi­o­lable rights?

David MichelsonJan 10, 2025, 1:08 PM
51 points
19 comments15 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

Should Effec­tive Altru­ists Have Kids?

Nicholas DeckerJan 9, 2025, 6:20 PM
−5 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(nicholasdecker.substack.com)

Re­think­ing the Value of Work­ing on AI Safety

Johan de KockJan 9, 2025, 2:15 PM
45 points
21 comments10 min readEA link

The moral ar­gu­ment for giv­ing AIs autonomy

Matthew_BarnettJan 8, 2025, 12:59 AM
33 points
7 comments11 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)

EA’s Biggest Missed Op­por­tu­nity: Mark Zuckerberg

TrappistJan 16, 2025, 12:36 PM
17 points
8 comments7 min readEA link

How do fic­tional sto­ries illus­trate AI mis­al­ign­ment?

Vishakha AgrawalJan 15, 2025, 6:16 AM
4 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(aisafety.info)

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

The Sub­jec­tive Ex­pe­rience of Time: Welfare Implications

Jason SchukraftJul 27, 2020, 1:24 PM
113 points
21 comments63 min readEA link

Stop Over­re­act­ing re: FTX /​ SBF

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

Con­se­quen­tial­ism and Cluelessness

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

End-Re­la­tional The­ory of Meta-ethics: A Dialogue

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

His­tory of the the­ory of well-being

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

Byrne Ho­bart & Dwarkesh Pa­tel on hard­core be­liev­ers, monas­ter­ies, and effec­tive altruism

peterhartreeDec 3, 2022, 10:00 PM
31 points
7 comments7 min readEA link

Evolu­tion, Pain, Suffer­ing, and Ed Yong

MattBallNov 24, 2022, 1:36 PM
13 points
4 comments2 min readEA link
(www.mattball.org)

Spencer Green­berg: Value traps, and how to avoid them

EA GlobalJun 8, 2018, 7:51 AM
11 points
1 comment18 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Con­struc­tive Crit­i­cism of Mo­ral Uncer­tainty (book)

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

Some con­sid­er­a­tions for differ­ent ways to re­duce x-risk

JacyFeb 4, 2016, 3:21 AM
28 points
34 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] How much money donated and to where (in the space of an­i­mal wellbe­ing) would “can­cel out” the harm from leas­ing a com­mer­cial build­ing to a restau­rant that pre­sum­ably uses fac­tory farmed an­i­mals?

spreadlove5683Aug 23, 2021, 7:53 PM
19 points
5 comments1 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

Growth and the case against ran­domista development

Hauke HillebrandtJan 16, 2020, 10:11 AM
434 points
197 comments31 min readEA link

“Allkind”

tyleraltermanFeb 14, 2016, 1:24 AM
21 points
2 comments6 min readEA link

Sur­vey-Pro­posal: Cause-Area Switching

QubitSwarm99Aug 6, 2021, 2:23 AM
18 points
1 comment9 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)

Two Types of Aver­age Utilitarianism

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

Longter­mism and an­i­mal advocacy

Tobias_BaumannNov 11, 2020, 5:44 PM
99 points
8 comments4 min readEA link
(centerforreducingsuffering.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

Up­date on the Global Pri­ori­ties In­sti­tute’s (GPI) activities

Global Priorities InstituteDec 24, 2019, 1:51 PM
23 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

Peace­ful­ness, non­vi­o­lence, and ex­pe­ri­en­tial­ist minimalism

Teo AjantaivalMay 23, 2022, 7:17 PM
62 points
14 comments29 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)

What ac­tu­ally is the ar­gu­ment for effec­tive al­tru­ism?

Benjamin_ToddSep 26, 2020, 8:32 PM
98 points
29 comments2 min readEA link

Quotes about the long reflection

MichaelA🔸Mar 5, 2020, 7:48 AM
55 points
14 comments13 min readEA link

Toby Ord: Selected quo­ta­tions on ex­is­ten­tial risk

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

Notes on sup­port­ing Hap­pier Lives Institute

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

Bu­gout Bags for Disasters

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

The Value of a Life

So8resFeb 17, 2015, 5:33 PM
38 points
11 comments10 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)

Punch­ing Utili­tar­i­ans in the Face

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

The Drown­ing Child and the Ex­pand­ing Circle

Peter SingerSep 9, 2014, 3:16 PM
72 points
32 comments6 min readEA link

Ste­fan Schu­bert: Psy­chol­ogy of Ex­is­ten­tial Risk and Longtermism

EA GlobalMar 25, 2019, 2:45 PM
34 points
4 comments11 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Why Should We Donate Money to Char­ity?

JulianHazellMar 20, 2021, 5:07 PM
9 points
0 comments8 min readEA link
(www.givingwhatwecan.org)

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)

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

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

Dig­nity as al­ter­na­tive EA pri­or­ity—re­quest for feedback

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

Pitch­ing EA to some­one who be­lieves cer­tain goods can’t be as­signed a value

Nick CorvinoJul 21, 2021, 8:05 PM
18 points
5 comments2 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

EA read­ing list: clue­less­ness and epistemic modesty

richard_ngoAug 3, 2020, 9:23 AM
29 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

[3-hour pod­cast]: Joseph Car­l­smith on longter­mism, utopia, the com­pu­ta­tional power of the brain, meta-ethics, illu­sion­ism and meditation

Gus DockerJul 27, 2021, 1:18 PM
34 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

What We Owe the Past

AustinMay 5, 2022, 12:06 PM
55 points
19 comments5 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

Are GiveWell Top Char­i­ties Too Spec­u­la­tive?

MichaelDickensDec 21, 2015, 4:05 AM
24 points
58 comments3 min readEA link

What does moral progress con­sist of?

jasoncrawfordAug 19, 2022, 12:21 AM
23 points
6 comments2 min readEA link

Marginal Cases, On Trial

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

[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

Ste­fan Schu­bert: Mo­ral co­op­er­a­tion

EA GlobalJun 2, 2017, 8:48 AM
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Utili­tar­i­anism Meets Egalitarianism

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

Mean­ing, medicine, and merit

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

Com­par­i­sons of Ca­pac­ity for Welfare and Mo­ral Sta­tus Across Species

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

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

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

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

Anthony DiGiovanniJul 1, 2021, 9:01 PM
139 points
10 comments32 min readEA link

In defence of epistemic modesty

Gregory Lewis🔸Oct 29, 2017, 7:15 PM
140 points
51 comments37 min readEA link

Carl Shul­man on the com­mon-sense case for ex­is­ten­tial risk work and its prac­ti­cal implications

80000_HoursOct 8, 2021, 1:43 PM
41 points
2 comments149 min readEA link

Weighted wellbe­ing pop­u­la­tion theory

brb243Nov 3, 2021, 3:01 AM
2 points
2 comments6 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

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)

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)

[Question] Are many EAs philo­soph­i­cal prag­ma­tists?

rortyAug 30, 2021, 3:51 PM
9 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

On ev­ery­day al­tru­ism and the lo­cal circle

Bernadette_YoungMay 24, 2015, 2:09 PM
36 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

The asym­me­try, un­cer­tainty, and the long term

Global Priorities InstituteSep 30, 2019, 1:37 PM
13 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

How can I in­ter­nal­ize my most im­pact­ful nega­tive ex­ter­nal­ities?

rhys_lindmarkJan 17, 2019, 5:38 AM
9 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

[Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes] Ad­verse Child­hood Experiences

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

Sum­mary of my aca­demic pa­per “Effec­tive Altru­ism and Sys­temic Change”

antonin_broiSep 26, 2019, 1:55 PM
82 points
5 comments4 min readEA link

Will longter­mists self-efface

Noah ScalesAug 12, 2022, 2:32 AM
−7 points
23 comments6 min readEA link

The Long Reflec­tion as the Great Stag­na­tion

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

The ex­pected value of ex­tinc­tion risk re­duc­tion is positive

JanBDec 9, 2018, 8:00 AM
66 points
22 comments61 min readEA link

[Question] Was cen­tral place food shar­ing the origi­nal effec­tive al­tru­ism?

Lee CronkAug 27, 2022, 8:27 AM
10 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Does Mo­ral Philos­o­phy Drive Mo­ral Progress?

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

Sen­tien­tism: Im­prov­ing the hu­man episte­mol­ogy and ethics baseline

JamieWoodhouseMar 27, 2019, 3:34 PM
8 points
6 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

Bernard Willi­ams: Ethics and the limits of impartiality

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

Les­sons from Strangers Drown­ing by Larissa MacFarquhar

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

How you can save ex­pected lives for $0.20-$400 each and re­duce X risk

Denkenberger🔸Nov 27, 2017, 2:23 AM
24 points
5 comments8 min readEA link

Bud­dha Was An Effec­tive Altruist

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

[Question] EA’s Achieve­ments in 2022

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

The Up­per Limit of Value

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

We’re re­ally bad at guess­ing the future

Benj AzoseAug 13, 2022, 9:11 AM
20 points
2 comments6 min readEA link

May The Fac­tory Farms Burn

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

We are still in triage

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

Wrong les­sons from the FTX catastrophe

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

Descartes’ 17th cen­tury Tur­ing Test

James-Hartree-LawJan 16, 2025, 8:18 PM
3 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

Orthog­o­nal Im­pact: Find­ing High-Lev­er­age Good in Un­likely Careers

Brad West🔸Jan 16, 2025, 9:43 PM
6 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

[Question] What do you mean with ‘al­ign­ment is solv­able in prin­ci­ple’?

RemmeltJan 17, 2025, 3:03 PM
10 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

AI Ver­sion of an Am­bi­tious Pro­posal to Effec­tively Ad­dress World Suffering

RobertDaoustJan 18, 2025, 3:33 PM
−12 points
2 comments3 min readEA link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Should we try harder to ap­peal to con­ser­va­tives?

SiobhanBJan 17, 2025, 10:31 AM
68 points
25 comments1 min readEA link

Thoughts on Peter Singer’s moral premises pre­dat­ing the EA movement

JCJan 20, 2025, 1:39 PM
10 points
5 comments6 min readEA link

The sec­ond bit­ter les­son — there’s a fun­da­men­tal prob­lem with al­ign­ing AI

aelwoodJan 19, 2025, 6:48 PM
4 points
1 comment5 min readEA link
(pursuingreality.substack.com)

[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

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

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)

#206 – The pre­dic­tive brain and how to study con­scious­ness (Anil Seth on The 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_HoursNov 1, 2024, 5:51 PM
13 points
0 comments11 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

Win­ning isn’t enough

Anthony DiGiovanniNov 5, 2024, 11:43 AM
31 points
3 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

Two ar­gu­ments against longter­mist thought experiments

amaury lorinNov 2, 2024, 10:23 AM
17 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

Re­mem­ber­ing Joseph Rot­blat (born on this day in 1908)

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

[Question] What should I read about defin­ing AI “hal­lu­ci­na­tion?”

James-Hartree-LawJan 23, 2025, 1:00 AM
2 points
0 comments1 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

Are we try­ing to figure out if AI is con­scious?

kristapszJan 27, 2025, 1:22 PM
5 points
1 comment5 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

Quan­tum Im­mor­tal­ity: A Per­spec­tive if AI Doomers are Prob­a­bly Right

turchinNov 7, 2024, 4:06 PM
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Are fish­ing and agri­cul­ture bad for an­i­mals?

StijnNov 7, 2024, 1:47 PM
16 points
2 comments6 min readEA link

[Question] What is the best way to ex­plain that s-risks are im­por­tant—ba­si­cally, why ex­is­tence is not in­her­ently bet­ter than non ex­is­tence? In­tend­ing this for some­one mostly un­fa­mil­iar with EA, like some­one in an in­tro program

shepardrileyNov 8, 2024, 6:12 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Utopian Equality

David NNov 9, 2024, 10:07 PM
2 points
2 comments6 min readEA link

Yascha Mounk has started a se­ries of es­says on effec­tive altruism

James HerbertNov 11, 2024, 4:16 PM
9 points
4 comments1 min readEA link
(yaschamounk.substack.com)

[Question] Neart­er­mist cru­cial con­sid­er­a­tions?

Anthony DiGiovanniNov 7, 2024, 4:27 AM
17 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Cause Plu­ral­ity vs Cause Prioritization

Joey🔸Nov 11, 2024, 9:59 AM
83 points
14 comments10 min readEA link

The Dic­ta­tor’s Hand­book [book by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alas­tair Smith]

Arturo MaciasJan 27, 2025, 5:24 PM
8 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Eth­i­cal Ve­ganism is Wrong

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

Fake think­ing and real thinking

Joe_CarlsmithJan 28, 2025, 8:05 PM
72 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(joecarlsmith.substack.com)

Cap­i­tal­ism and the Very Long Term

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

[Question] Is it eth­i­cal to work in AI “con­tent eval­u­a­tion”?

anon_databoy555Jan 30, 2025, 1:27 PM
10 points
3 comments1 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

You should read Hobbes, Locke, Hume, and Mill via Ear­lyModernTexts.com

Arjun PanicksseryJan 30, 2025, 12:35 PM
39 points
4 comments1 min readEA link
(arjunpanickssery.substack.com)

Could ASI Have Ex­isted Since the Big Bang?

Aaron LiJan 31, 2025, 1:20 PM
−13 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

AI and Non-Existence

Blue11Jan 31, 2025, 1:19 PM
4 points
0 comments2 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

[Question] If EAs ex­isted 100 years ago, would they sup­port Pro­hi­bi­tion?

WillieGFeb 1, 2025, 6:49 PM
66 points
15 comments1 min readEA link

Pub­lished: NYU CMEP and NYU CEAP 2024 An­nual Reports

Sofia_FogelFeb 1, 2025, 3:28 PM
16 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

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

Steven DelreFeb 6, 2025, 8:14 PM
9 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Tether­ware #1: The case for hu­man­like AI with free will

Jáchym FibírJan 30, 2025, 11:57 AM
−1 points
2 comments10 min readEA link
(tetherware.substack.com)

Linkpost: “Imag­in­ing and build­ing wise ma­chines: The cen­tral­ity of AI metacog­ni­tion” by John­son, Karimi, Ben­gio, et al.

Chris LeongNov 17, 2024, 3:00 PM
8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(arxiv.org)

The Case For Giv­ing To The Shrimp Welfare Project

OmnizoidNov 15, 2024, 4:02 PM
73 points
20 comments7 min readEA link

The Choice Transition

Owen Cotton-BarrattNov 18, 2024, 12:32 PM
42 points
1 comment15 min readEA link
(strangecities.substack.com)

Why I Think All The Species Of Sig­nifi­cantly De­bated Con­scious­ness Are Con­scious And Suffer Intensely

OmnizoidNov 20, 2024, 4:11 PM
65 points
26 comments33 min readEA link

Re­but­ting Every Ob­jec­tion To Giv­ing To The Shrimp Welfare Project

OmnizoidNov 22, 2024, 4:11 PM
33 points
8 comments8 min readEA link

Open Wallets, Empty Hearts [linkpost]

Benjamin M.Nov 23, 2024, 11:49 PM
34 points
4 comments1 min readEA link
(www.thenewatlantis.com)

Must We Hurt Even The Lit­tle An­i­mals?

OmnizoidNov 26, 2024, 6:35 PM
22 points
1 comment8 min readEA link

The ‘Dog vs Cat’ clue­less­ness dilemma (and whether it makes sense)

Jim BuhlerNov 28, 2024, 11:34 AM
24 points
27 comments2 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)

[Linkpost] Will MacAskill coau­thors new book ti­tled “An In­tro­duc­tion to Utili­tar­i­anism”, with Richard Chap­pell and Dar­ius Meissner

Rían O.M Dec 2, 2024, 5:48 PM
24 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(x.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)

Sin­er­gia An­i­mal helps 113 mil­lion farmed an­i­mals ev­ery year.

Caroline OliveiraDec 4, 2024, 7:11 PM
51 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

So­cial Science in its episte­molog­i­cal context

Arturo MaciasDec 5, 2024, 4:10 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.theseedsofscience.pub)

What does star­va­tion feel like?

Elijah WhippleDec 5, 2024, 10:09 PM
59 points
3 comments11 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the Com­pas­sion­ate Fu­ture Sum­mit 2025

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

An Episte­molog­i­cal Ac­count of In­tu­itions in Science

Eleni_ASep 3, 2022, 11:21 PM
5 points
0 comments17 min readEA link

What 99% of peo­ple don’t know about Wild Animals

Jack Hancock-FairsDec 8, 2024, 8:26 PM
58 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

In­sti­tu­tions and Longter­mism Read­ing List

Luis Mota FreitasOct 19, 2022, 11:56 AM
30 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Why did I mi­s­un­der­stand util­i­tar­i­anism so badly?

Eleni_AJul 16, 2022, 4:36 PM
18 points
1 comment4 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

What would you do if you were the only in­tel­li­gent be­ing in the uni­verse?

Jonathan YanDec 27, 2022, 3:54 AM
7 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

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)

Talk­ing EA to my philos­o­phy friends

Eleni_AJul 14, 2022, 8:48 AM
11 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] Ca­reer Ad­vice: Philos­o­phy + Pro­gram­ming → AI Safety

tcelferactMar 18, 2022, 3:09 PM
30 points
11 comments2 min readEA link

[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

[Job – Academia] As­sis­tant Pro­fes­sor (Philos­o­phy/​Ethics) at Ling­nan Univer­sity (Hong Kong)

Andrea SauchelliOct 26, 2021, 9:25 AM
5 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Are we ne­glect­ing ed­u­ca­tion? Philos­o­phy in schools as a longter­mist area

JackMJul 30, 2020, 4:31 PM
68 points
29 comments17 min readEA link

Is In­spira­tion Effec­tive in An­i­mal Ad­vo­cacy?

zoenewtonAug 14, 2023, 11:42 AM
6 points
0 comments12 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­tion to suffer­ing-fo­cused ethics

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

On sincerity

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

Philos­o­phy Web—Pro­ject Pro­posal

Ben EvansAug 24, 2021, 3:37 PM
9 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

How would you ap­proach an in­tro­duc­tion to Effec­tive Altru­ism in 1 hour in a class of sec­ond-year Philos­o­phy stu­dents?

jrcl39Feb 1, 2024, 12:47 PM
2 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

What is Con­fi­dence, in Game The­ory and Life?

Non-zero-sum JamesDec 10, 2024, 11:11 PM
2 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

It seems hard to avoid sci­en­tific stag­na­tion due to the bur­den of knowl­edge in the long run

TobyWFeb 1, 2024, 2:40 PM
5 points
0 comments11 min readEA link
(nematobe.substack.com)

Devel­op­ing a Calcu­la­ble Con­science for AI: Equa­tion for Rights Violations

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

There is no royal road to al­ign­ment

Eleni_ASep 17, 2022, 1:24 PM
18 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Would you rather kill 2 mice or 10 fish? In­ter­species Trade-Offs and the Mo­ral Weight of An­i­mal Species in Biomed­i­cal Research

Aashish KMar 20, 2024, 6:17 PM
11 points
1 comment8 min readEA link

Fal­li­bil­ism, Bias, and the Rule of Law

Elliot TempleOct 17, 2022, 11:59 PM
14 points
6 comments13 min readEA link
(criticalfallibilism.com)

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)

On the Philo­soph­i­cal Foun­da­tions of EA

mm6Sep 1, 2022, 7:34 AM
35 points
10 comments23 min readEA link

Why I think that teach­ing philos­o­phy is high impact

Eleni_ADec 19, 2022, 11:00 PM
17 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Philos­o­phy PhD Ap­pli­ca­tion: Ad­vice on Writ­ten Submission

tcelferactSep 19, 2021, 4:41 PM
4 points
6 comments2 min readEA link

Ex­pand­ing the Teach­ing of Philosophy

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

Socrates Café: A Differ­ent Ap­proach to Dis­cus­sion

Ryan AdlerJun 4, 2022, 11:34 PM
27 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

Jus­tice and Global Pri­ori­ties Re­search Read­ing List

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

[Question] What should I ask Joe Car­l­smith — Open Phil re­searcher, philoso­pher and blog­ger?

Robert_WiblinNov 9, 2022, 10:04 PM
33 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

How to be a high im­pact philosopher

William_MacAskillMay 8, 2012, 4:00 AM
3 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Dist­in­guish­ing Between Ideal­ism and Real­ism in In­ter­na­tional Relations

Siya SawhneyJul 18, 2024, 4:23 PM
5 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Sym­bio­sis, not al­ign­ment, as the goal for liberal democ­ra­cies in the tran­si­tion to ar­tifi­cial gen­eral intelligence

simonfriederichMar 17, 2023, 1:04 PM
18 points
2 comments24 min readEA link
(rdcu.be)

AI & wis­dom 1: wis­dom, amor­tised op­ti­mi­sa­tion, and AI

L Rudolf LOct 29, 2024, 1:37 PM
14 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(rudolf.website)

Emerg­ing Paradigms: The Case of Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence Safety

Eleni_AJan 18, 2023, 5:59 AM
16 points
0 comments19 min readEA link

The Jour­nal of Danger­ous Ideas

rogersbacon1Feb 3, 2024, 3:43 PM
−26 points
1 comment5 min readEA link
(www.secretorum.life)

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

Altru­ism isn’t about sacrifice

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Sep 6, 2013, 4:00 AM
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Why EA needs to be more conservative

Further or AlternativelyJan 23, 2023, 8:47 PM
3 points
9 comments10 min readEA link

Nat­u­ral­is­tic dualism

Arturo MaciasDec 11, 2024, 3:51 PM
2 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

High­est pri­or­ity threat: in­finite tor­ture

KAraxJan 26, 2023, 8:51 AM
−39 points
1 comment9 min readEA link

Ar­ti­cle Against Utilitarianism

Noah BirnbaumJul 18, 2024, 8:59 PM
3 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(open.substack.com)

‘Evolu­tion­ary de­bunk­ing ar­gu­ments’ about hu­man moral intuitions

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

[Question] Is the EA com­mu­nity re­ally ad­vo­cat­ing prin­ci­ples over con­clu­sions ?

Solal 🔸Dec 11, 2024, 4:31 PM
73 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

Align­ing Self-In­ter­est With Sur­vival And Thriving

Marc WongFeb 1, 2023, 4:15 PM
3 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

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)

Puz­zles for Some

Violet HourFeb 3, 2023, 12:23 PM
20 points
4 comments7 min readEA link

Should ChatGPT make us down­weight our be­lief in the con­scious­ness of non-hu­man an­i­mals?

splinterFeb 18, 2023, 11:29 PM
11 points
15 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] What do EA’s think about Bayesian in­fer­ences ver­sus other types?

Noah ScalesFeb 4, 2023, 11:09 AM
4 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

A dis­cus­sion with ChatGPT on value-based mod­els vs. large lan­guage mod­els, etc..

MiguelFeb 4, 2023, 4:49 PM
4 points
0 comments12 min readEA link
(www.whitehatstoic.com)

Shal­low in­ves­ti­ga­tion: Loneliness

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

[Linkpost] Michael Hue­mer on the case for Bayesian statistics

John G. HalsteadFeb 7, 2023, 5:52 PM
20 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

2023 Public Philos­o­phy Net­work Con­fer­ence on “Fac­ing Tech­nol­ogy: The Role of Public Philos­o­phy” @ UC Santa Cruz—Call for Proposals

ianolasovFeb 8, 2023, 9:57 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Tech­nol­ogy is Power: Rais­ing Aware­ness Of Tech­nolog­i­cal Risks

Marc WongFeb 9, 2023, 3:13 PM
3 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Michael Levin, Scien­tific Panpsy­chism and Teleology

Fergus FettesFeb 12, 2023, 6:21 PM
19 points
3 comments7 min readEA link

Overview | An Eval­u­a­tive Evolu­tion

Matt KeeneFeb 10, 2023, 6:15 PM
−9 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
(www.creatingafuturewewant.com)

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

Short sum­mary of What We Owe The Future

finmFeb 12, 2023, 4:27 PM
29 points
3 comments7 min readEA link
(finmoorhouse.com)

What are the “no free lunch” the­o­rems?

Vishakha AgrawalFeb 4, 2025, 2:02 AM
3 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(aisafety.info)

There are no co­her­ence theorems

EJTFeb 20, 2023, 9:52 PM
107 points
49 comments19 min readEA link

No Room for Poli­ti­cal Philosophy

Arturo MaciasFeb 21, 2023, 4:14 PM
14 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

How should norms of aca­demic writ­ing and pub­lish­ing be changed once AI sys­tems be­come su­per­hu­man in more re­spects?

simonfriederichNov 24, 2023, 1:35 PM
10 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(link.springer.com)

[Question] Which movies have been most effec­tive at ex­pand­ing your moral cir­cle?

Geoffrey MillerFeb 26, 2023, 2:34 AM
18 points
7 comments1 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)

Job list­ing (closed): Sen­tience In­sti­tute is ac­cept­ing ap­pli­ca­tions for a researcher

MichaelDelloMar 2, 2023, 4:36 AM
19 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

Joscha Bach on Syn­thetic In­tel­li­gence [an­no­tated]

Roman LeventovMar 2, 2023, 11:21 AM
8 points
0 comments9 min readEA link
(www.jimruttshow.com)

AI al­ign­ment as a trans­la­tion problem

Roman LeventovFeb 5, 2024, 2:14 PM
3 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

[Question] What pa­per on EA should I pre­sent in class on Philos­o­phy and Eco­nomics?

RamiroMar 3, 2023, 6:59 PM
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Acausal normalcy

Andrew CritchMar 3, 2023, 11:35 PM
21 points
4 comments8 min readEA link

Coun­ter­pro­duc­tive Altru­ism: The Other Heavy Tail

Vasco Grilo🔸Mar 1, 2023, 9:58 AM
186 points
8 comments7 min readEA link
(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

[Question] Math­e­mat­i­cal mod­els of Ethics

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

EA needs Life-Veter­ans and “Less Smart” people

Jeffrey KursonisMar 8, 2023, 3:59 PM
80 points
38 comments4 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)

An­nounc­ing ‘The Fu­ture Loves You: How and Why We Should Abol­ish Death’

Ariel_ZJOct 31, 2024, 12:31 AM
12 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

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

Why should I care about in­sects?

JamieGittinsMay 18, 2022, 7:37 PM
88 points
20 comments5 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

Pri­ori­ti­za­tion Ques­tions for Ar­tifi­cial Sentience

Jamie_HarrisOct 18, 2021, 2:07 PM
30 points
2 comments8 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

Blind Spots: Compartmentalizing

DaleDec 31, 2014, 10:25 PM
20 points
55 comments14 min readEA link

Some his­tory top­ics it might be very valuable to investigate

MichaelA🔸Jul 8, 2020, 2:40 AM
91 points
34 comments6 min readEA link

The Nar­row­ing Cir­cle (Gw­ern)

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

Can we in­fluence the val­ues of our de­scen­dants?

Jaime SevillaNov 16, 2021, 10:36 AM
63 points
17 comments6 min readEA link

EA for dumb peo­ple?

Olivia AddyJul 11, 2022, 10:46 AM
493 points
160 comments2 min readEA link

How moral progress hap­pens: the de­cline of foot­bind­ing as a case study

rosehadsharJul 26, 2022, 9:18 AM
106 points
10 comments13 min readEA link

[Draft] In­creas­ing Em­pa­thy as a new Cause Area

Christoph Hartmann 🔸Dec 17, 2022, 1:29 AM
12 points
4 comments7 min readEA link

Towards a longter­mist frame­work for eval­u­at­ing democ­racy-re­lated interventions

Tom Barnes🔸Jul 28, 2021, 1:23 PM
96 points
5 comments30 min readEA link

Why do effec­tive al­tru­ists sup­port the causes we do?

Michelle_HutchinsonDec 30, 2015, 5:51 PM
27 points
15 comments6 min readEA link

Tyler John: Per­son­hood initiatives

EA GlobalJun 8, 2018, 7:51 AM
9 points
0 comments14 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Free Guy, a rom-com on the moral pa­tient­hood of digi­tal sentience

micDec 23, 2021, 7:47 AM
26 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Steer­ing AI to care for an­i­mals, and soon

Andrew CritchJun 14, 2022, 1:13 AM
224 points
37 comments1 min readEA link

Why I’m skep­ti­cal of moral cir­cle ex­pan­sion as a cause area

Question MarkJul 14, 2022, 8:29 PM
18 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

Why I pri­ori­tize moral cir­cle ex­pan­sion over re­duc­ing ex­tinc­tion risk through ar­tifi­cial in­tel­li­gence alignment

JacyFeb 20, 2018, 6:29 PM
107 points
72 comments35 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

The Im­por­tance of Ar­tifi­cial Sentience

Jamie_HarrisMar 3, 2021, 5:17 PM
70 points
10 comments11 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

The Fu­ture Might Not Be So Great

JacyJun 30, 2022, 1:01 PM
145 points
118 comments34 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

7 es­says on Build­ing a Bet­ter Future

Jamie_HarrisJun 24, 2022, 2:28 PM
21 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing the Le­gal Pri­ori­ties Project

jonasschuettAug 30, 2020, 2:10 PM
179 points
15 comments1 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)

[Question] What ever hap­pened to PETRL (Peo­ple for the Eth­i­cal Treat­ment of Re­in­force­ment Learn­ers)?

matthew.vandermerweDec 30, 2019, 5:28 PM
33 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Hu­man­i­ties Re­search Ideas for Longtermists

LizkaJun 9, 2021, 4:39 AM
151 points
13 comments13 min readEA link

New Re­port on Con­scious­ness and Mo­ral Patienthood

lukeprogJun 6, 2017, 1:21 PM
21 points
1 comment2 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

Three Heuris­tics for Find­ing Cause X

Kerry_VaughanNov 4, 2016, 2:36 PM
5 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

Sa­vor­ing my moral circle

Angelina LiDec 26, 2022, 3:02 AM
87 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

On the longter­mist case for work­ing on farmed an­i­mals [Uncer­tain­ties & re­search ideas]

MichaelA🔸Apr 11, 2021, 6:49 AM
78 points
12 comments8 min readEA link

Data Publi­ca­tion for the 2021 Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence, Mo­ral­ity, and Sen­tience (AIMS) Sur­vey

Janet PauketatMar 24, 2022, 3:43 PM
21 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

Sen­tience In­sti­tute 2022 End of Year Summary

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

Ex­pand­ing the moral cir­cle (Kelly Witwicki)

EA GlobalJun 2, 2017, 8:48 AM
13 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Ex­tinc­tion risk re­duc­tion and moral cir­cle ex­pan­sion: Spec­u­lat­ing sus­pi­cious convergence

MichaelA🔸Aug 4, 2020, 11:38 AM
12 points
4 comments6 min readEA link

[Question] An­i­mal Welfare: Re­viv­ing Ex­tinct (hu­man) in­ter­me­di­ate species?

Franziska FischerMay 5, 2022, 10:16 AM
15 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

So­cial Move­ment Les­sons from the Fair Trade Movement

Jamie_HarrisApr 2, 2021, 10:51 AM
44 points
0 comments41 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

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)

A Case for Vol­un­tary Abor­tion Reduction

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

The Mo­ral Cir­cle is not a Circle

Grue_SlinkyAug 14, 2019, 5:55 PM
38 points
5 comments8 min readEA link

Rad­i­cal Empathy

Holden KarnofskyFeb 16, 2017, 12:41 PM
76 points
15 comments6 min readEA link

Find­ing more effec­tive causes

Michelle_HutchinsonJan 1, 2016, 10:54 PM
23 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

Sen­tience In­sti­tute 2021 End of Year Summary

AliNov 26, 2021, 2:40 PM
66 points
5 comments6 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

AI ethics: the case for in­clud­ing an­i­mals (my first pub­lished pa­per, Peter Singer’s first on AI)

FaiJul 12, 2022, 4:14 AM
78 points
5 comments1 min readEA link
(link.springer.com)

The Case Against Speciesism

EA HandbookNov 9, 2020, 1:00 AM
17 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(centerforreducingsuffering.org)

An­nounc­ing the first is­sue of Asterisk

Clara CollierNov 21, 2022, 6:51 PM
275 points
47 comments1 min readEA link

[Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes] Ex­pand­ing Cir­cles, Im­prov­ing Lives

Chad Patrick OsorioAug 26, 2022, 9:55 AM
6 points
0 comments18 min readEA link

The Ter­minol­ogy of Ar­tifi­cial Sentience

Janet PauketatNov 28, 2021, 7:52 AM
29 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

‘The only eth­i­cal ar­gu­ment for pos­i­tive δ’?

Global Priorities InstituteSep 30, 2019, 1:40 PM
3 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Mo­ral Progress Read­ing List

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

Jose Valle: Vir­tual re­al­ity for pro­mot­ing empathy

EA GlobalAug 11, 2017, 8:19 AM
7 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Ex­pand­ing Our Com­pas­sion: More to explore

EA HandbookJan 2, 2021, 1:22 AM
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

The Pos­si­bil­ity of Microor­ganism Suffering

Elias Au-YeungAug 7, 2022, 6:02 AM
48 points
5 comments30 min readEA link

Some EA Fo­rum Posts I’d like to write

LinchFeb 23, 2021, 5:27 AM
100 points
10 comments5 min readEA link

[Creative Writ­ing Con­test] Priorities

Contra RienOct 30, 2021, 4:53 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link

What is the ar­gu­ment against a Thanos-ing all hu­man­ity to save the lives of other sen­tient be­ings?

somethoughtsMar 7, 2021, 8:02 AM
0 points
11 comments3 min readEA link

Do sour grapes ap­ply to moral­ity?

NikolaDec 16, 2021, 6:00 PM
21 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Cosmopolitanism

TopherHallquistSep 10, 2014, 7:30 AM
47 points
40 comments5 min readEA link

Effec­tive strate­gies for chang­ing pub­lic opinion: A liter­a­ture review

Jamie_HarrisNov 9, 2021, 2:09 PM
81 points
2 comments36 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

Strange Love—Devel­op­ing Em­pa­thy With In­ten­tion (or: How I Learned To Stop Calcu­lat­ing And Love The Cause)

EdoAradOct 1, 2022, 2:03 PM
76 points
5 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] Can the moral cir­cle be ex­panded through eco­nomic se­cu­rity and/​or poli­ti­cal trust?

Jan-WillemApr 13, 2021, 7:59 AM
9 points
1 comment1 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

Level­ing-up Impartiality

Richard Y Chappell🔸May 19, 2022, 12:32 AM
36 points
2 comments2 min readEA link
(rychappell.substack.com)

More to ex­plore on ‘Rad­i­cal Em­pa­thy’

EA HandbookJul 4, 2022, 11:00 PM
12 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Key Les­sons From So­cial Move­ment History

Jamie_HarrisJun 30, 2021, 5:05 PM
123 points
24 comments11 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

The Mo­ral Value of the Far Future

Holden KarnofskyJul 3, 2014, 12:43 PM
2 points
0 comments8 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

The His­tory of AI Rights Research

Jamie_HarrisAug 27, 2022, 8:14 AM
48 points
1 comment14 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

Part 1/​4: A Case for Abolition

Dhruv MakwanaJan 11, 2023, 1:46 PM
33 points
7 comments3 min readEA link

Linkpost: Big Wins for Farm An­i­mals This Decade

JamesÖzJan 11, 2023, 5:30 PM
71 points
4 comments4 min readEA link
(us14.campaign-archive.com)

[Question] Ex­er­cise for ‘Rad­i­cal Em­pa­thy’

EA HandbookJul 12, 2022, 6:29 PM
10 points
20 comments1 min readEA link

Mo­ral cir­cles: De­grees, di­men­sions, visuals

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

Against the “smarts fetish”

Magnus VindingApr 8, 2022, 7:54 AM
140 points
38 comments7 min readEA link

Will Maskill Gave Up on Utili­tar­i­anism (and the rest of us are soon to fol­low)

johnburidanJul 11, 2022, 2:10 AM
−1 points
7 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] Is im­per­sonal benev­olence a virtue?

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

Some non-util­i­tar­ian readings

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

Web of virtue the­sis [re­search note]

Owen Cotton-BarrattJan 1, 2021, 4:21 PM
57 points
1 comment9 min readEA link

Virtues for Real-World Utilitarians

Stefan_SchubertAug 5, 2021, 10:56 PM
152 points
7 comments1 min readEA link
(psyarxiv.com)

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

Justin Oak­ley: Virtue ethics and effec­tive altruism

EA GlobalAug 28, 2015, 9:21 AM
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

On­line Work­ing /​ Com­mu­nity Meetup for the Abo­li­tion of Suffering

Ruth_SeleoMay 18, 2022, 12:47 PM
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Con­di­tional in­ter­ests, asym­me­tries and EA priorities

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

Suffer­ing-Fo­cused Ethics (SFE) FAQ

EdisonYOct 16, 2021, 11:33 AM
77 points
22 comments24 min readEA link

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 recom­mend as­so­ci­a­tions that deal with re­duc­ing suffer­ing?

YanaySep 12, 2022, 11:28 PM
24 points
17 comments1 min readEA link

AMA: To­bias Bau­mann, Cen­ter for Re­duc­ing Suffering

Tobias_BaumannSep 6, 2020, 10:45 AM
48 points
45 comments1 min readEA link

Re­duc­ing long-term risks from malev­olent actors

David_AlthausApr 29, 2020, 8:55 AM
344 points
93 comments37 min readEA link

Cause pri­ori­ti­za­tion for down­side-fo­cused value systems

Lukas_GloorJan 31, 2018, 2:47 PM
76 points
11 comments48 min readEA link

The Repug­nant Con­clu­sion Isn’t

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

Pod­cast: Mag­nus Vind­ing on re­duc­ing suffer­ing, why AI progress is likely to be grad­ual and dis­tributed and how to rea­son about poli­tics

Gus DockerNov 21, 2021, 3:29 PM
26 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.utilitarianpodcast.com)

Nar­ra­tion: Re­duc­ing long-term risks from malev­olent actors

D0TheMathJul 15, 2021, 4:26 PM
23 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(anchor.fm)

CLR’s An­nual Re­port 2021

stefan.torgesFeb 26, 2022, 12:47 PM
79 points
0 comments12 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

Against Nega­tive Utilitarianism

OmnizoidDec 14, 2021, 8:17 PM
1 point
59 comments4 min readEA link

A cri­tique of strong longtermism

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

Ex­plor­ing a Log­a­r­ith­mic Tol­er­ance of Suffering

David ReberApr 12, 2021, 1:39 AM
10 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

New Book: “Rea­soned Poli­tics” + Why I have writ­ten a book about politics

Magnus VindingMar 3, 2022, 11:31 AM
95 points
9 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] Why do you re­ject nega­tive util­i­tar­i­anism?

Teo AjantaivalFeb 12, 2019, 7:39 AM
16 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

On­line Work­ing /​ Com­mu­nity Meetup for the Abo­li­tion of Suffering

Ruth_SeleoMay 31, 2022, 9:16 AM
7 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Min­i­mal­ist ax­iolo­gies and pos­i­tive lives

Teo AjantaivalNov 13, 2021, 10:57 AM
57 points
12 comments24 min readEA link

The un­think­able ur­gency of suffering

Aaron BergmanJun 26, 2021, 12:14 AM
54 points
9 comments6 min readEA link
(aaronbergman.substack.com)

[TikTok] Com­pa­ra­bil­ity be­tween suffer­ing and happiness

Ben_West🔸Sep 1, 2022, 4:31 PM
23 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

Pro­mot­ing com­pas­sion­ate longtermism

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

Pos­i­tive roles of life and ex­pe­rience in suffer­ing-fo­cused ethics

Teo AjantaivalMay 22, 2021, 4:05 PM
49 points
1 comment19 min readEA link

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

Cri­tique of MacAskill’s “Is It Good to Make Happy Peo­ple?”

Magnus VindingAug 23, 2022, 9:21 AM
223 points
115 comments8 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)

Defend­ing the Pro­cre­ation Asym­me­try with Con­di­tional Interests

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

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

Global Priorities InstituteApr 30, 2021, 1:26 PM
4 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Kar­da­shev for Kindness

Mary StowersJun 11, 2021, 10:22 PM
30 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

some con­cerns with clas­si­cal utilitarianism

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

EA read­ing list: suffer­ing-fo­cused ethics

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

S-risk FAQ

Tobias_BaumannSep 18, 2017, 8:05 AM
29 points
8 comments8 min readEA link

How can we re­duce s-risks?

Tobias_BaumannJan 29, 2021, 3:46 PM
42 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(centerforreducingsuffering.org)

Min­i­mal­ist ex­tended very re­pug­nant con­clu­sions are the least repugnant

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

Timeline Utilitarianism

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

Meta-Prefer­ence Utilitarianism

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

EA read­ing list: util­i­tar­i­anism and consciousness

richard_ngoAug 7, 2020, 7:32 PM
17 points
3 comments1 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

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

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)

Cal­ibra­tion dilem­mas in the ethics of distribution

Global Priorities InstituteAug 1, 2021, 1:12 PM
8 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

MORE Effec­tive Altruism

Marty NemkoDec 19, 2022, 11:19 PM
1 point
4 comments1 min readEA link

Pod­cast: Bryan Ca­plan on open bor­ders, UBI, to­tal­i­tar­i­anism, AI, pan­demics, util­i­tar­i­anism and la­bor economics

Gus DockerFeb 22, 2022, 3:04 PM
22 points
0 comments45 min readEA link
(www.utilitarianpodcast.com)

Other-cen­tered ethics and Harsanyi’s Ag­gre­ga­tion Theorem

Holden KarnofskyFeb 2, 2022, 3:21 AM
59 points
11 comments72 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)

Suc­cess Max­i­miza­tion: An Alter­na­tive to Ex­pected Utility The­ory and a Gen­er­al­iza­tion of Max­ipok to Mo­ral Uncertainty

Mahendra PrasadNov 26, 2022, 1:53 AM
13 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Rab­bits, robots and resurrection

Patrick WilsonMay 10, 2022, 3:00 PM
9 points
0 comments15 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

EA Should Re­name Itself

Name RectifierSep 2, 2022, 4:28 AM
1 point
0 comments16 min readEA link

Prac­ti­cal ethics re­quires meta­phys­i­cal Free Will

Astra KamratowskiApr 7, 2022, 2:47 PM
2 points
1 comment13 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)

When Utili­tar­i­anism is Ac­tu­ally ✨Fun✨

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

Harsanyi’s sim­ple “proof” of utilitarianism

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

Mo­ral de­mands and the far future

Global Priorities InstituteMay 31, 2020, 1:36 PM
3 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Com­par­i­son be­tween the he­do­nic util­ity of hu­man life and poul­try liv­ing time

Vasco Grilo🔸Jun 8, 2022, 7:52 AM
47 points
28 comments14 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)

Puz­zles for Everyone

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

Some solu­tions to util­i­tar­ian problems

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

The psy­chol­ogy of pop­u­la­tion ethics

Lucius CaviolaAug 30, 2021, 5:33 PM
173 points
10 comments3 min readEA link

Four Quotes on Prefer­ence Utilitarianism

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

[Question] Does Utili­tar­ian Longter­mism Im­ply Directed Pansper­mia?

AhrenbachApr 24, 2020, 6:15 PM
4 points
17 comments1 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

My (Lazy) Longter­mism FAQ

Devin KalishOct 24, 2022, 4:44 PM
30 points
6 comments27 min readEA link

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

[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

A bet­ter so­ciety short­cuts away the “longterm con­se­quences ver­sus rules” dilemma

kbogDec 14, 2022, 5:46 AM
14 points
3 comments7 min readEA link

Ar­gu­ing for util­i­tar­i­anism

OmnizoidDec 14, 2021, 7:31 PM
3 points
2 comments64 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)

Effec­tive Altru­ism and Utilitarianism

Tom_AshJan 30, 2015, 11:18 AM
8 points
54 comments5 min readEA link

[Linkpost] Alexan­der Berger On Philan­throphic Op­por­tu­ni­ties And Nor­mal Awe­some Altruism

AppliedDivinityStudiesDec 8, 2021, 10:24 PM
21 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

In­ter­view with Chris­tine M. Kors­gaard: An­i­mal Ethics, Kan­ti­anism, Utilitarianism

Erich_Grunewald 🔸May 8, 2021, 11:44 AM
16 points
10 comments1 min readEA link
(www.erichgrunewald.com)

Launch­ing Utili­tar­i­anism.net: An In­tro­duc­tory On­line Text­book on Utilitarianism

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

Em­piri­cal cri­tique of EA from an­other direction

tonzAug 22, 2022, 9:13 AM
2 points
0 comments6 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] Why AGIs util­ity can’t out­weigh hu­mans’ util­ity?

Alex PSep 20, 2022, 5:16 AM
6 points
25 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Why do you find the Repug­nant Con­clu­sion re­pug­nant?

Will BradshawDec 17, 2021, 10:00 AM
58 points
60 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

Par­tial Ag­gre­ga­tion’s Utility Monster

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

Just Say No to Utili­tar­i­anism

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

Valu­ing lives in­stru­men­tally leads to un­com­fortable conclusions

Karthik TadepalliSep 4, 2022, 9:32 PM
17 points
16 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)

Rhetor­i­cal Abus­abil­ity is a Poor Counterargument

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

Eco­nomic in­equal­ity and the long-term future

Global Priorities InstituteApr 30, 2021, 1:26 PM
11 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

‘Con­se­quen­tial­ism’ is be­ing used to mean sev­eral differ­ent things

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

Fu­ture-proof ethics

Holden KarnofskyFeb 2, 2022, 7:40 PM
70 points
57 comments17 min readEA link

Act util­i­tar­i­anism: crite­rion of right­ness vs. de­ci­sion procedure

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

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

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

Be­ware the “greater good”: FTX and Utilitarianism

angelica_whiteNov 20, 2022, 5:51 AM
−10 points
0 comments1 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)

Sim­ple com­par­i­son pol­ling to cre­ate util­ity functions

NunoSempereNov 15, 2021, 7:48 PM
46 points
13 comments6 min readEA link

[Question] What is the cost-effec­tive­ness of GiveWell’s top life-sav­ing char­i­ties un­der to­tal util­i­tar­i­anism?

Vasco Grilo🔸Apr 22, 2022, 5:22 PM
14 points
5 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)

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

Virtues for Real-World Utilitarians

Richard Y Chappell🔸Apr 28, 2022, 2:18 PM
27 points
4 comments1 min readEA link
(www.utilitarianism.net)

‘Benefi­cen­trism’, by Richard Yet­ter Chappell

PabloMay 9, 2022, 12:43 PM
75 points
12 comments1 min readEA link
(rychappell.substack.com)

Non-ad­di­tive ax­iolo­gies in large worlds

Global Priorities InstituteAug 31, 2020, 1:30 PM
16 points
0 comments7 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

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

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

“Ex­is­ten­tial Risk” is badly named and leads to nar­row fo­cus on as­tro­nom­i­cal waste

freedomandutilityAug 22, 2022, 8:25 PM
38 points
2 comments2 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)

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
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