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Philos­o­phy of effec­tive altruism

TagLast edit: 30 May 2022 14:46 UTC by Leo

The Philosophy of effective altruism tag covers posts about the philosophical ideas behind EA, especially when they don’t discuss particular causes or research methods.

Further reading

MacAskill, William & Darius Meissner (2020) Effective altruism, in ‘Acting on utilitarianism’, Utilitarianism.

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A philo­soph­i­cal re­view of Open Philan­thropy’s Cause Pri­ori­ti­sa­tion Framework

MichaelPlant15 Jul 2022 8:21 UTC
160 points
11 comments29 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

Why not give 90%?

HaydenW23 Mar 2020 2:53 UTC
57 points
26 comments7 min readEA link

Prob­a­bil­ities, Pri­ori­ti­za­tion, and ‘Bayesian Mind­set’

Violet Hour4 Apr 2023 10:16 UTC
66 points
6 comments24 min readEA link

Non-util­i­tar­ian effec­tive altruism

keir bradwell29 Jan 2023 6:07 UTC
42 points
10 comments17 min readEA link
(keirbradwell.substack.com)

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

Kat Biewer7 Apr 2023 3:38 UTC
27 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Hedg­ing against deep and moral uncertainty

MichaelStJules12 Sep 2020 23:44 UTC
83 points
13 comments9 min readEA link

On “fringe” ideas

Kelsey Piper19 Aug 2019 7:00 UTC
249 points
6 comments5 min readEA link
(theunitofcaring.tumblr.com)

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

HaydenW21 Sep 2020 8:48 UTC
57 points
20 comments5 min readEA link

Aim high, even if you fall short

Julia_Wise🔸11 Oct 2014 17:26 UTC
151 points
11 comments2 min readEA link

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

Joe_Carlsmith21 Feb 2023 17:16 UTC
64 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism is a Ques­tion (not an ide­ol­ogy)

Helen16 Oct 2014 4:16 UTC
276 points
48 comments4 min readEA link

“Do­ing Good Best” isn’t the EA ideal

Davidmanheim16 Sep 2022 12:06 UTC
128 points
17 comments6 min readEA link

Defin­ing Effec­tive Altruism

William_MacAskill19 Jul 2019 10:49 UTC
110 points
22 comments5 min readEA link

In defence of epistemic mod­esty [dis­til­la­tion]

Luise10 May 2023 9:39 UTC
26 points
3 comments9 min readEA link

New book: Mo­ral Uncer­tainty by MacAskill, Ord & Bykvist

frankieaw10 Sep 2020 16:22 UTC
91 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Philos­o­phy Web—Pro­ject Pro­posal

Ben Evans24 Aug 2021 15:37 UTC
9 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Cosmopolitanism

TopherHallquist10 Sep 2014 7:30 UTC
47 points
40 comments5 min readEA link

Cause pri­ori­ti­za­tion for down­side-fo­cused value systems

Lukas_Gloor31 Jan 2018 14:47 UTC
75 points
10 comments48 min readEA link

The Priv­ilege of Earn­ing To Give

Jeff Kaufman14 Jan 2015 1:59 UTC
86 points
38 comments1 min readEA link

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

Venkatesh26 Apr 2021 4:37 UTC
44 points
14 comments1 min readEA link

The most im­por­tant un­solved prob­lems in ethics

William_MacAskill15 Oct 2012 2:28 UTC
16 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

On ev­ery­day al­tru­ism and the lo­cal circle

Bernadette_Young24 May 2015 14:09 UTC
36 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

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

Stefan_Schubert31 May 2017 22:41 UTC
58 points
15 comments1 min readEA link

Giv­ing isn’t de­mand­ing*

William_MacAskill25 Nov 2011 5:00 UTC
22 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism’s Im­plicit Epistemology

Violet Hour18 Oct 2022 13:38 UTC
129 points
12 comments28 min readEA link

A philo­soph­i­cal in­tro­duc­tion to effec­tive altruism

William_MacAskill10 Jul 2019 13:40 UTC
56 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

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

Benjamin_Todd25 Sep 2016 15:01 UTC
31 points
7 comments7 min readEA link

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

Ramiro1 Aug 2021 14:04 UTC
19 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

Act util­i­tar­i­anism: crite­rion of right­ness vs. de­ci­sion procedure

Askell18 Jan 2017 23:49 UTC
60 points
5 comments4 min readEA link

Aid Scep­ti­cism and Effec­tive Altruism

William_MacAskill3 Jul 2019 11:34 UTC
71 points
13 comments2 min readEA link

Sum­mary of my aca­demic pa­per “Effec­tive Altru­ism and Sys­temic Change”

antonin_broi26 Sep 2019 13:55 UTC
81 points
5 comments4 min readEA link

What ac­tu­ally is the ar­gu­ment for effec­tive al­tru­ism?

Benjamin_Todd26 Sep 2020 20:32 UTC
98 points
29 comments2 min readEA link

Effi­cient char­ity: do unto oth­ers...

Scott Alexander3 Sep 2013 4:40 UTC
82 points
13 comments6 min readEA link

Ste­fan Schu­bert: Un­der­stand­ing cause-neutrality

EA Global3 Nov 2017 7:43 UTC
12 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

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

MichaelDickens17 May 2016 1:51 UTC
30 points
52 comments8 min readEA link

Toby Ord: Selected quo­ta­tions on ex­is­ten­tial risk

Aaron Gertler 🔸6 Aug 2020 17:41 UTC
32 points
0 comments39 min readEA link
(theprecipice.com)

EA read­ing list: clue­less­ness and epistemic modesty

richard_ngo3 Aug 2020 9:23 UTC
27 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

What al­tru­ism means to me

Neel Nanda15 Aug 2020 8:25 UTC
14 points
0 comments7 min readEA link
(www.neelnanda.io)

Prospect­ing for Gold (Owen Cot­ton-Bar­ratt)

EA Global18 Nov 2016 12:11 UTC
44 points
5 comments21 min readEA link

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

Fods1228 Jun 2019 7:18 UTC
165 points
46 comments16 min readEA link
(thegodlesstheist.com)

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

Peter Wildeford7 Aug 2013 4:00 UTC
54 points
1 comment11 min readEA link

An em­bar­rass­ment of riches

Julia_Wise🔸19 Nov 2015 18:23 UTC
55 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism and Mean­ing in Life

extra_ordinary18 Mar 2019 6:12 UTC
106 points
7 comments12 min readEA link

Philos­o­phy event se­ries in­tro­duc­ing EA at the Univer­sity of Zurich

Eleos Arete Citrini4 Jan 2022 12:49 UTC
19 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Will MacAskill: Why should effec­tive al­tru­ists em­brace un­cer­tainty?

EA Global4 Dec 2018 16:23 UTC
33 points
2 comments8 min readEA link

How to be a high im­pact philosopher

William_MacAskill8 May 2012 4:00 UTC
3 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] Are many EAs philo­soph­i­cal prag­ma­tists?

rorty30 Aug 2021 15:51 UTC
9 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Against philan­thropic diversification

JackM22 Dec 2022 13:28 UTC
44 points
18 comments3 min readEA link
(ethicaleconomist.substack.com)

Be­ware sur­pris­ing and sus­pi­cious convergence

Gregory Lewis🔸24 Jan 2016 19:11 UTC
218 points
21 comments15 min readEA link

The world is full of wasted motion

Neel Nanda5 Aug 2020 20:41 UTC
21 points
2 comments11 min readEA link
(www.neelnanda.io)

[Question] What val­ues would EA want to pro­mote?

James_Banks9 Jul 2020 6:35 UTC
34 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

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

John Bridge 🔸27 Mar 2022 20:41 UTC
28 points
42 comments5 min readEA link

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

Aaron Gertler 🔸18 Sep 2019 0:23 UTC
37 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

In defence of epistemic modesty

Gregory Lewis🔸29 Oct 2017 19:15 UTC
140 points
51 comments37 min readEA link

Effec­tive­ness is a Con­junc­tion of Multipliers

Thomas Kwa25 Mar 2022 18:44 UTC
258 points
34 comments4 min readEA link

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

richard_ngo8 Mar 2020 16:12 UTC
74 points
54 comments1 min readEA link

Some Modes of Think­ing about EA

EdoArad9 Nov 2019 17:54 UTC
54 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

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

Eevee🔹25 Jun 2021 15:39 UTC
12 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

How to be a high im­pact philoso­pher, part II

William_MacAskill27 Sep 2012 4:00 UTC
0 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Hilary Greaves: Do­ing good to­gether — col­lec­tivism vs. coordination

EA Global3 Nov 2017 7:43 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

The Nar­row­ing Cir­cle (Gw­ern)

Aaron Gertler 🔸11 Feb 2019 23:50 UTC
51 points
17 comments5 min readEA link

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

Omnizoid29 Jan 2023 20:11 UTC
16 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Maybe longter­mism isn’t for everyone

Eevee🔹10 Feb 2023 16:48 UTC
39 points
17 comments1 min readEA link

Gra­di­ent Des­cent as an anal­ogy for Do­ing Good

JWS 🔸11 Oct 2024 11:12 UTC
13 points
1 comment8 min readEA link

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

Pablo22 Nov 2023 15:04 UTC
68 points
7 comments1 min readEA link
(philpapers.org)

Utili­tar­i­anism and the re­place­abil­ity of de­sires and attachments

MichaelStJules27 Jul 2024 1:57 UTC
33 points
11 comments12 min readEA link

Prac­ti­cal ethics re­quires meta­phys­i­cal Free Will

Astra Kamratowski7 Apr 2022 14:47 UTC
2 points
1 comment13 min readEA link

Altru­ism isn’t about sacrifice

Jeff Kaufman6 Sep 2013 4:00 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Why Should We Donate Money to Char­ity?

JulianHazell20 Mar 2021 17:07 UTC
9 points
0 comments8 min readEA link
(www.givingwhatwecan.org)

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

riceissa25 Jan 2021 2:53 UTC
85 points
21 comments4 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism and Eastern Ethics

EA Lifestyles7 Jul 2023 15:27 UTC
75 points
16 comments3 min readEA link
(ealifestyles.substack.com)

What is effec­tive al­tru­ism?

William_MacAskill13 May 2013 4:00 UTC
14 points
23 comments2 min readEA link

A full syl­labus on longtermism

jtm5 Mar 2021 22:57 UTC
110 points
13 comments8 min readEA link

Whole­hearted choices and “moral­ity as taxes”

Joe_Carlsmith21 Dec 2020 19:35 UTC
79 points
8 comments4 min readEA link

Le idee “es­treme”

EA Italy31 Dec 2022 4:15 UTC
1 point
0 comments5 min readEA link

The Epistemic Challenge to Longter­mism (Tarsney, 2020)

MichaelA4 Apr 2021 3:09 UTC
79 points
27 comments2 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Toby Ord’s The Scourge, Reviewed

ColdButtonIssues30 Aug 2022 21:01 UTC
59 points
25 comments4 min readEA link

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

Peter McLaughlin7 Oct 2022 10:52 UTC
187 points
61 comments18 min readEA link

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

Dov12 Aug 2022 5:52 UTC
3 points
6 comments22 min readEA link

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

James Snowden🔸12 Aug 2015 15:13 UTC
29 points
16 comments1 min readEA link

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

Mahendra Prasad20 Aug 2021 1:06 UTC
15 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Valu­ing lives in­stru­men­tally leads to un­com­fortable conclusions

Karthik Tadepalli4 Sep 2022 21:32 UTC
17 points
16 comments1 min readEA link

The Case for Education

SamuelKnoche14 Aug 2020 17:26 UTC
24 points
10 comments10 min readEA link

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

ben.smith25 Feb 2021 20:06 UTC
21 points
7 comments2 min readEA link

Be­hav­ioral/​Cog­ni­tive Psy­chol­ogy and EA

Jung Enthusiast13 Dec 2020 16:15 UTC
−4 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Com­mon-sense cases where “hy­po­thet­i­cal fu­ture peo­ple” matter

tlevin12 Aug 2022 14:05 UTC
107 points
21 comments4 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the Longter­mism Fel­low­ship of EA Mu­nich—Ap­ply!

Jacob21 Aug 2022 8:08 UTC
20 points
10 comments2 min readEA link

New Publi­ca­tion: Effec­tive Altru­ism and Reli­gion

dominicroser25 Jan 2022 9:22 UTC
74 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

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

Vasco Grilo🔸20 Sep 2022 16:30 UTC
16 points
11 comments3 min readEA link

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

Prof.Weird4 Feb 2022 9:08 UTC
−2 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

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

Max Görlitz4 Jul 2022 17:09 UTC
41 points
6 comments2 min readEA link

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

Vasco Grilo🔸8 Oct 2022 21:08 UTC
19 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

The role of effec­tive giv­ing in effec­tive al­tru­ism (MCF 2024 memo)

Sjir Hoeijmakers🔸2 Oct 2024 13:11 UTC
20 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

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

The_Lord's_Servant_28029 Apr 2020 4:57 UTC
19 points
21 comments1 min readEA link

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

Mahendra Prasad11 Feb 2021 7:43 UTC
16 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

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

alexis schoenlaub13 Oct 2024 9:33 UTC
6 points
4 comments6 min readEA link

The Value of a Life

So8res17 Feb 2015 17:33 UTC
38 points
11 comments10 min readEA link

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

Ben Yeoh27 Jul 2022 19:51 UTC
35 points
1 comment12 min readEA link

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

Mahendra Prasad5 May 2021 5:33 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Effec­tive vs Altruism

Liat Zvi16 Sep 2022 9:37 UTC
2 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Philo­soph­i­cal Cri­tiques of Effec­tive Altru­ism by Prof Jeff McMahan

Robert_Wiblin3 May 2016 21:05 UTC
50 points
9 comments12 min readEA link

Will Maskill Gave Up on Utili­tar­i­anism (and the rest of us are soon to fol­low)

johnburidan11 Jul 2022 2:10 UTC
−1 points
7 comments3 min readEA link

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

Nathan Young14 Feb 2024 19:43 UTC
119 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(medium.com)

Socrates Café: A Differ­ent Ap­proach to Dis­cus­sion

Ryan Adler4 Jun 2022 23:34 UTC
27 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

Over­think­ing “Only Be a Story”

Mica White17 Jul 2022 22:53 UTC
6 points
0 comments4 min readEA link