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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)

Related entries

moral philosophy | philosophy of effective altruism | philosophy of mind

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17 points
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40 points
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5 points
0 comments11 min readEA link
(nematobe.substack.com)

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5 points
0 comments11 min readEA link
(nematobe.substack.com)

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2 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

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36 points
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3 points
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18 points
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1 point
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76 points
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64 points
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1 point
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4 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

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34 points
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68 points
2 comments15 min readEA link

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71 points
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25 points
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26 points
2 comments6 min readEA link

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66 points
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−18 points
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18 points
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−9 points
2 comments3 min readEA link
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22 points
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56 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

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−19 points
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11 points
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9 points
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64 points
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17 points
1 comment13 min readEA link
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89 points
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28 points
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28 points
4 comments5 min readEA link
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24 points
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15 points
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19 points
2 comments13 min readEA link

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−12 points
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1 point
0 comments3 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

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28 points
9 comments2 min readEA link

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52 points
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5 points
2 comments17 min readEA link

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26 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

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38 points
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62 points
1 comment24 min readEA link

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5 points
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tobiasleenaert10 Dec 2023 11:26 UTC
93 points
25 comments5 min readEA link

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122 points
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How to cre­ate a “good” AGI

mreichert8 Dec 2023 10:47 UTC
1 point
0 comments10 min readEA link

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ishaan8 Dec 2023 8:34 UTC
55 points
0 comments52 min readEA link

Do­ing Good Effec­tively is Unusual

Richard Y Chappell1 Dec 2023 17:03 UTC
173 points
23 comments7 min readEA link
(rychappell.substack.com)

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16 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

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Andreas P1 Dec 2023 5:49 UTC
2 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

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Inga28 Nov 2023 14:49 UTC
17 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Re­think’s CURVE Se­quence—The Good and the Gaps

Jack Malde28 Nov 2023 1:06 UTC
96 points
7 comments10 min readEA link

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Global Priorities Institute27 Nov 2023 15:40 UTC
23 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

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MichaelDello27 Nov 2023 12:11 UTC
25 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

How should norms of aca­demic writ­ing and pub­lish­ing be changed once AI sys­tems be­come su­per­hu­man in more re­spects?

simonfriederich24 Nov 2023 13:35 UTC
10 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(link.springer.com)

How should norms of aca­demic writ­ing and pub­lish­ing be changed once AI sys­tems be­come su­per­hu­man in more re­spects?

simonfriederich24 Nov 2023 13:35 UTC
10 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(link.springer.com)

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

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

[Question] How Can Com­pu­ta­tion Cause Con­scious­ness?

Matthew Barber21 Nov 2023 23:33 UTC
2 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

My Thoughts On Suffering

Kenneth_Diao21 Nov 2023 22:23 UTC
27 points
7 comments35 min readEA link
(kennethdiao.substack.com)

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Richard Y Chappell17 Nov 2023 16:09 UTC
33 points
7 comments4 min readEA link
(rychappell.substack.com)

Eco­nomics of An­i­mal Welfare: Call for Abstracts

Bob Fischer16 Nov 2023 16:50 UTC
86 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

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JordanStone15 Nov 2023 12:32 UTC
12 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

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MikhailSamin13 Nov 2023 16:51 UTC
−1 points
28 comments7 min readEA link

The effec­tive al­tru­ist case for pro-life/​anti-abor­tion advocacy

Calum Miller13 Nov 2023 9:29 UTC
11 points
33 comments19 min readEA link

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Vlad_Tislenko12 Nov 2023 15:36 UTC
12 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

“Effec­tive Altru­ism, Longter­mism, and the Prob­lem of Ar­bi­trary Power” by Gwilym David Blunt

WobblyPandaPanda12 Nov 2023 1:21 UTC
22 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(www.thephilosopher1923.org)

The Rel­a­tive Eth­i­cal­ness of Clini­cal Trial Designs

Jonathan Nankivell10 Nov 2023 21:00 UTC
16 points
4 comments4 min readEA link

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Rethink Priorities10 Nov 2023 20:35 UTC
38 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

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Global Priorities Institute9 Nov 2023 17:42 UTC
41 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

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Richard Y Chappell9 Nov 2023 16:55 UTC
13 points
0 comments7 min readEA link
(rychappell.substack.com)

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Marcus_A_Davis7 Nov 2023 13:42 UTC
89 points
10 comments7 min readEA link

Va­ri­eties of min­i­mal­ist moral views: Against ab­surd acts

Teo Ajantaival7 Nov 2023 11:57 UTC
50 points
3 comments11 min readEA link

Solu­tions to prob­lems with Bayesianism

Bob Jacobs4 Nov 2023 12:15 UTC
27 points
2 comments21 min readEA link

[Question] Thoughts on con­se­quen­tial­ism?

Daniel Birnbaum3 Nov 2023 2:41 UTC
3 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

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

Global Priorities Institute1 Nov 2023 12:10 UTC
40 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

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

Andreas P1 Nov 2023 7:12 UTC
8 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Is x-risk the most cost-effec­tive if we count only the next few gen­er­a­tions?

Laura Duffy30 Oct 2023 12:43 UTC
116 points
7 comments20 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

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

Fergus Fettes28 Oct 2023 20:17 UTC
7 points
0 comments16 min readEA link

Why I don’t pri­ori­tize con­scious­ness research

Vasco Grilo28 Oct 2023 8:07 UTC
45 points
5 comments6 min readEA link
(magnusvinding.com)

My Left Kidney

MathiasKB27 Oct 2023 11:31 UTC
106 points
9 comments1 min readEA link
(www.astralcodexten.com)

The hid­den com­plex­ity of “moral cir­cles”

JamesFaville25 Oct 2023 20:19 UTC
33 points
3 comments29 min readEA link

The op­tion value ar­gu­ment doesn’t work when it’s most needed

Winston24 Oct 2023 19:40 UTC
122 points
6 comments6 min readEA link

The Drown­ing Child Can Be Read In Two Direc­tions

Tomas B.24 Oct 2023 16:12 UTC
−2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

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

Ryan Combes24 Oct 2023 4:11 UTC
10 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(drive.google.com)

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

jorges22 Oct 2023 14:48 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Ra­tion­al­ity Club at UChicago

Daniel Birnbaum17 Oct 2023 2:13 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link

If Con­trac­tu­al­ism, Then AMF

Bob Fischer13 Oct 2023 18:03 UTC
62 points
54 comments24 min readEA link

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

Andreas P13 Oct 2023 17:40 UTC
3 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

[Linkpost] Fran­cis at a Fac­tory Farm – Fran­cis of As­sisi and an­i­mal welfare

EA for Christians13 Oct 2023 11:44 UTC
21 points
2 comments4 min readEA link
(christandcounterfactuals.substack.com)

How to ne­glect the long term (Hay­den Wilk­in­son)

Global Priorities Institute13 Oct 2023 11:09 UTC
21 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Causes and Uncer­tainty: Re­think­ing Value in Expectation

Bob Fischer11 Oct 2023 9:15 UTC
214 points
29 comments15 min readEA link

Longter­mism or Ret­ro­spec­tivism: The More Effec­tive Utili­tar­ian Alter­na­tive.

Hooman8 Oct 2023 12:26 UTC
0 points
5 comments4 min readEA link

Part 2: Reflec­tions af­ter at­tend­ing the CEA In­tro to EA Vir­tual Pro­gram in Sum­mer 2023 – Chap­ter 2: Differ­ences in Impact

Andreas P8 Oct 2023 5:50 UTC
7 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

Im­por­tance of In­creas­ing Suffer­ing-fo­cused Values and Po­ten­tial Interventions

Dimpo8 Oct 2023 3:23 UTC
3 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

Ar­gu­ments for util­i­tar­i­anism are im­pos­si­bil­ity ar­gu­ments un­der un­bounded prospects

MichaelStJules7 Oct 2023 21:09 UTC
39 points
48 comments1 min readEA link

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

MysteryMeat6 Oct 2023 13:09 UTC
−18 points
19 comments1 min readEA link

Egyp­tol­ogy and Fa­nat­i­cism (Hay­den Wilk­in­son)

Global Priorities Institute5 Oct 2023 6:32 UTC
19 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

A re­sponse to Michael Plant’s re­view of What We Owe The Future

Jack Malde4 Oct 2023 23:40 UTC
61 points
14 comments10 min readEA link

De Dicto and De Se Refer­ence Mat­ters for Alignment

philgoetz3 Oct 2023 21:57 UTC
5 points
2 comments9 min readEA link

The Two Faces of Mo­ral Con­cern: Welfare Pro­mo­tion & Suffer­ing Reduction

Maryam Ali Khan3 Oct 2023 13:50 UTC
13 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Con­sider religion

Daniel Birnbaum30 Sep 2023 6:38 UTC
0 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Sum­mary: Si­mu­la­tion expectation

Global Priorities Institute27 Sep 2023 10:58 UTC
10 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

A Sys­tem­atic Re­sponse to FTX/​SBF-Based Crit­i­cisms of EA

Alex Strasser26 Sep 2023 7:21 UTC
29 points
4 comments1 min readEA link
(gospeldemands.com)

Com­mon fal­la­cies in hu­man reasoning

basil.icious25 Sep 2023 14:35 UTC
1 point
0 comments5 min readEA link
(basil08.github.io)

I de­signed an AI safety course (for a philos­o­phy de­part­ment)

Eleni_A23 Sep 2023 21:56 UTC
27 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Let’s talk about Im­pos­tor syn­drome in AI safety

Igor Ivanov22 Sep 2023 14:06 UTC
4 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Should Effec­tive Altru­ists be Valuists in­stead of util­i­tar­i­ans?

spencerg22 Sep 2023 10:32 UTC
20 points
18 comments6 min readEA link

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

alexherwix22 Sep 2023 7:59 UTC
1 point
14 comments1 min readEA link

In defense of the Gap.

Azad Ellafi15 Sep 2023 19:46 UTC
3 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

[Question] Is EA a well-in­ten­tioned ver­sion of ‘sur­vival of the fittest’ (or largest)?

FionaConner14 Sep 2023 17:39 UTC
11 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

Rad­i­cal Longter­mism and the Se­duc­tion of End­less Growth: A Cri­tique of William MacAskill’s ‘What We Owe the Fu­ture’

alexherwix14 Sep 2023 14:43 UTC
−14 points
15 comments1 min readEA link
(perspecteeva.substack.com)

Ca­reer Con­ver­sa­tion Week: Philos­o­phy Grad­u­ate Student

mhendric13 Sep 2023 21:32 UTC
13 points
1 comment7 min readEA link

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

Global Priorities Institute12 Sep 2023 16:31 UTC
70 points
20 comments5 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Panel dis­cus­sion on AI con­scious­ness with Rob Long and Jeff Sebo

Aaron Bergman9 Sep 2023 3:38 UTC
30 points
6 comments42 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

De­ci­sion The­ory: A (Nor­ma­tive) Introduction

ParetoOptimal6 Sep 2023 11:46 UTC
0 points
2 comments3 min readEA link
(paretooptimal.substack.com)

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

jaredlcm4 Sep 2023 6:21 UTC
10 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

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

Jobst Heitzig (vodle.it)2 Sep 2023 23:32 UTC
9 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

New Prince­ton course on longtermism

Calvin_Baker1 Sep 2023 20:31 UTC
88 points
7 comments6 min readEA link

[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 Mostafavi31 Aug 2023 12:08 UTC
16 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

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

Raemon29 Aug 2023 23:42 UTC
50 points
6 comments2 min readEA link

How do we live a good and eth­i­cal life?

Matthew Collins27 Aug 2023 22:36 UTC
3 points
1 comment18 min readEA link

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

Aaron Bergman27 Aug 2023 3:51 UTC
23 points
1 comment28 min readEA link
(www.aaronbergman.net)

[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 Webster25 Aug 2023 12:53 UTC
35 points
2 comments2 min readEA link
(centerforreducingsuffering.org)

Ori­gin and al­ign­ment of goals, mean­ing, and morality

FalseCogs24 Aug 2023 14:05 UTC
1 point
2 comments35 min readEA link

Im­pos­ing a Lifestyle: A New Ar­gu­ment for Anti­na­tal­ism

Oldphan23 Aug 2023 22:23 UTC
10 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.cambridge.org)

The Eth­i­cal Basilisk Thought Experiment

Kyrtin23 Aug 2023 13:24 UTC
1 point
6 comments1 min readEA link

New en­cy­clo­pe­dia en­try on util­i­tar­i­anism and Chris­tian theology

dominicroser23 Aug 2023 13:08 UTC
53 points
5 comments1 min readEA link
(www.saet.ac.uk)

Im­pli­ca­tions of ev­i­den­tial co­op­er­a­tion in large worlds

Lukas Finnveden23 Aug 2023 0:43 UTC
79 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(lukasfinnveden.substack.com)

[Question] Recom­men­da­tions for char­i­ties for an­i­mal suffer­ing offsets?

rajlego22 Aug 2023 14:35 UTC
22 points
16 comments1 min readEA link

Per­sonal Reflec­tions on Longtermism

NatKiilu17 Aug 2023 21:22 UTC
73 points
12 comments8 min readEA link

The weight of suffer­ing (An­dreas Mo­gensen)

Global Priorities Institute17 Aug 2023 8:21 UTC
48 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Some solu­tions to in­finite ethics

Omnizoid16 Aug 2023 2:42 UTC
11 points
0 comments23 min readEA link

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

mchr3k14 Aug 2023 22:54 UTC
6 points
0 comments12 min readEA link

Is In­spira­tion Effec­tive in An­i­mal Ad­vo­cacy?

zoenewton14 Aug 2023 11:42 UTC
6 points
0 comments12 min readEA link

Is In­spira­tion Effec­tive in An­i­mal Ad­vo­cacy?

zoenewton14 Aug 2023 11:42 UTC
6 points
0 comments12 min readEA link

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

FCCC12 Aug 2023 14:25 UTC
3 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] What’s the Limit for Cost-Effec­tive­ness?

alamo 291410 Aug 2023 23:38 UTC
4 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Is ev­ery moral the­ory in­her­ently con­se­quen­tial­ist?

Chris Popa9 Aug 2023 14:36 UTC
3 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] How do in­spired con­tri­bu­tions and ex­ter­nal­ized costs fac­tor in cost-effec­tive­ness calcu­la­tions?

VictorW8 Aug 2023 21:43 UTC
12 points
8 comments2 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 Safety8 Aug 2023 15:52 UTC
12 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
(newsletter.safe.ai)

Fun­da­men­tals of Global Pri­ori­ties Re­search in Eco­nomics Syllabus

poliboni8 Aug 2023 12:16 UTC
74 points
1 comment8 min readEA link

How do longter­mists re­spond to ‘With a Whim­per: De­pop­u­la­tion and Longter­mism’?

Ben Stevenson6 Aug 2023 15:51 UTC
20 points
7 comments1 min readEA link
(sites.utexas.edu)

【練習問題】革新的な思いやり

EA Japan4 Aug 2023 12:43 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

New A Hap­pier World video on sen­tien­tism and moral cir­cle expansion

Jeroen Willems3 Aug 2023 23:25 UTC
20 points
0 comments13 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism and Essentialism

Rakefet Cohen Ben-Arye3 Aug 2023 2:57 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Ar­tifi­cially sen­tient be­ings: Mo­ral, poli­ti­cal, and le­gal issues

Fırat Akova1 Aug 2023 17:48 UTC
16 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(doi.org)

Im­ple­men­ta­tional Con­sid­er­a­tions for Digi­tal Consciousness

Derek Shiller30 Jul 2023 22:15 UTC
35 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

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

LondonGal30 Jul 2023 13:39 UTC
74 points
14 comments41 min readEA link

The value of cost-effec­tive­ness anal­y­sis (David Thorstad)

smountjoy29 Jul 2023 22:54 UTC
20 points
6 comments1 min readEA link
(ineffectivealtruismblog.com)

The Ul­ti­mate Ar­gu­ment Against Deon­tol­ogy And For Utilitarianism

Omnizoid29 Jul 2023 9:36 UTC
15 points
9 comments8 min readEA link

The harm cas­cade: why helping oth­ers is so hard

Stijn27 Jul 2023 13:54 UTC
42 points
1 comment13 min readEA link

Dis­cussing AI-Hu­man Col­lab­o­ra­tion Through Fic­tion: The Story of Laika and GPT-∞

Laika27 Jul 2023 6:04 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link

革新的な思いやり

EA Japan26 Jul 2023 13:35 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link

Selfless Givers vs. Other­ish Givers

Rakefet Cohen23 Jul 2023 9:00 UTC
5 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

[Question] Could some­one help me un­der­stand why it’s so difficult to solve the al­ign­ment prob­lem?

Jadon Schmitt22 Jul 2023 4:39 UTC
35 points
21 comments1 min readEA link

Adquira sen­ti­men­tos calorosos e útilons separadamente

AE Brasil / EA Brazil20 Jul 2023 18:48 UTC
4 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

The Dilemma of Ul­ti­mate Technology

Aino20 Jul 2023 12:24 UTC
1 point
0 comments7 min readEA link

Every­thing is one whole

KArax19 Jul 2023 22:13 UTC
−12 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

Valuism—an ap­proach to life for you to consider

spencerg19 Jul 2023 15:23 UTC
33 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

From Vi­sion to Real­ity: Vida Plena’s Pilot Results

Joy Bittner19 Jul 2023 11:16 UTC
94 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Mis­con­cep­tions About Rad­i­cal Lifes­pan Extension

Arjun Khemani16 Jul 2023 8:50 UTC
4 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(arjunkhemani.substack.com)

Min­i­mal­ist views of wellbeing

Teo Ajantaival15 Jul 2023 10:18 UTC
58 points
5 comments13 min readEA link

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

stepanlos14 Jul 2023 17:10 UTC
4 points
1 comment6 min readEA link

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

George_A (Digital Intelligence Rights Initiative) 14 Jul 2023 16:15 UTC
−9 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

The God­dess of Every­thing Else—The Animation

Writer13 Jul 2023 16:26 UTC
64 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Why We Need a Tax­on­omy of Mo­ral Concern

Maryam Ali Khan13 Jul 2023 12:26 UTC
17 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

How the Jains built a cul­ture of re­spect for non­hu­man animals

siwani agrawal11 Jul 2023 18:51 UTC
29 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

AI Wellbeing

Simon 11 Jul 2023 0:34 UTC
9 points
0 comments9 min readEA link

Con­struc­tive Dis­cus­sion and Think­ing Method­ol­ogy for Se­vere Si­tu­a­tions in­clud­ing Ex­is­ten­tial Risks

Aino8 Jul 2023 0:04 UTC
1 point
0 comments7 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)

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

Peter Berggren6 Jul 2023 17:37 UTC
0 points
19 comments2 min readEA link

HLI’s 2023-4 re­search agenda

MichaelPlant6 Jul 2023 12:02 UTC
46 points
11 comments12 min readEA link

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

BrownHairedEevee4 Jul 2023 18:45 UTC
10 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.philosophizethis.org)

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

BrownHairedEevee4 Jul 2023 18:43 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.philosophizethis.org)

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

BrownHairedEevee4 Jul 2023 18:38 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.philosophizethis.org)

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

Vivian4 Jul 2023 15:48 UTC
−16 points
5 comments6 min readEA link

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

Global Priorities Institute4 Jul 2023 13:18 UTC
48 points
14 comments3 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

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

Ben Yeoh2 Jul 2023 13:06 UTC
11 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(www.thendobetter.com)

[Link Post] Do Microbes Mat­ter More Than Hu­mans?

BrianK28 Jun 2023 2:15 UTC
39 points
14 comments1 min readEA link
(www.wired.com)

Free­dom un­der Nat­u­ral­is­tic Dualism

Arturo Macias27 Jun 2023 14:29 UTC
2 points
1 comment13 min readEA link

What We Owe The Fu­ture: A Buried Es­say

haven_worsham20 Jun 2023 17:49 UTC
19 points
0 comments16 min readEA link

Should we con­tinue dis­miss­ing most ideas about EA (with­out a fair trial)?

Dov20 Jun 2023 17:24 UTC
−11 points
4 comments14 min readEA link

Prin­ci­ples for AI Welfare Research

jeffsebo19 Jun 2023 11:30 UTC
127 points
14 comments13 min readEA link

Ne­glect­ed­ness is not enough

Victor Matta18 Jun 2023 9:00 UTC
2 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

The Meat Eater Problem

Vasco Grilo17 Jun 2023 6:52 UTC
50 points
1 comment7 min readEA link
(journalofcontroversialideas.org)

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

LeonardDung15 Jun 2023 21:03 UTC
13 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

The Com­mon Sense View on Meat Im­plies Some Pretty Rad­i­cal Con­clu­sions

Omnizoid14 Jun 2023 4:34 UTC
87 points
22 comments4 min readEA link

Evil

Omnizoid13 Jun 2023 23:47 UTC
19 points
2 comments20 min readEA link

There is only one goal or drive—only self-per­pet­u­a­tion counts

freest one13 Jun 2023 1:37 UTC
2 points
4 comments8 min readEA link

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

Vasco Grilo10 Jun 2023 9:24 UTC
15 points
27 comments1 min readEA link

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

MichaelPlant9 Jun 2023 13:02 UTC
89 points
11 comments2 min readEA link

Be­ware pop­u­lar dis­cus­sions of AI “sen­tience”

David Mathers8 Jun 2023 8:57 UTC
42 points
6 comments9 min readEA link

Reflec­tive Equil­ibria and the Hunt for a For­mal­ized Pragmatism

BenjaminCaulfield7 Jun 2023 22:55 UTC
4 points
1 comment13 min readEA link

Large episte­molog­i­cal con­cerns I should maybe have about EA a priori

Luise7 Jun 2023 14:11 UTC
107 points
16 comments8 min readEA link

Is there a case for Prona­tal­ism as an effec­tive cause area?

ben.smith7 Jun 2023 0:42 UTC
16 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

What is Progress and Why I think so­cial sci­ence is the key to the fu­ture.

Anthony Fu6 Jun 2023 8:51 UTC
3 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(anthonyfu.wixsite.com)

Mo­ral Spillover in Hu­man-AI Interaction

Katerina Manoli5 Jun 2023 15:20 UTC
17 points
1 comment13 min readEA link

[Linkpost] My doubts about longtermism

JoshuaBlake3 Jun 2023 10:57 UTC
12 points
7 comments1 min readEA link
(joshuablake.github.io)

Safe AI and moral AI

William D'Alessandro1 Jun 2023 21:18 UTC
3 points
0 comments11 min readEA link

Beyond Hu­mans: Why All Sen­tient Be­ings Mat­ter in Ex­is­ten­tial Risk

Teun_Van_Der_Weij31 May 2023 21:21 UTC
10 points
0 comments13 min readEA link

AI Doom and David Hume: A Defence of Em­piri­cism in AI Safety

Matt Beard30 May 2023 20:45 UTC
33 points
6 comments12 min readEA link

Utility Func­tions and Their Proxies

Max Reddel30 May 2023 6:03 UTC
7 points
0 comments11 min readEA link

Ram­sey and In­ter­gen­er­a­tional Welfare Eco­nomics—Stan­ford En­cy­clo­pe­dia of Philosophy

BrownHairedEevee24 May 2023 0:27 UTC
14 points
1 comment2 min readEA link
(plato.stanford.edu)

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

80000_Hours22 May 2023 12:53 UTC
25 points
1 comment12 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the Publi­ca­tion of An­i­mal Liber­a­tion Now

Peter Singer19 May 2023 16:34 UTC
472 points
16 comments3 min readEA link

The EthiSizer Ar­gu­ment & The Green Bank Equation

Velikovsky_of_Newcastle19 May 2023 15:19 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readEA link

Some Ar­gu­ments For Sen­tien­tism

Omnizoid18 May 2023 9:30 UTC
16 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

Judg­ments of­ten smug­gle in im­plicit standards

richard_ngo15 May 2023 18:50 UTC
46 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

A flaw in a sim­ple ver­sion of wor­ld­view diversification

NunoSempere15 May 2023 18:12 UTC
45 points
22 comments6 min readEA link
(nunosempere.com)

Blog up­date: Reflec­tive altruism

David Thorstad14 May 2023 11:07 UTC
178 points
22 comments9 min readEA link

Meet the Olympians bring­ing effec­tive al­tru­ism to ath­lete cli­mate investing

George Timms12 May 2023 9:50 UTC
19 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(sustainabilityreport.com)

In defence of epistemic mod­esty [dis­til­la­tion]

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

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

Joseph Lemien10 May 2023 0:14 UTC
15 points
16 comments1 min readEA link

Why Not EA? [pa­per draft]

Richard Y Chappell9 May 2023 19:03 UTC
47 points
71 comments2 min readEA link
(www.dropbox.com)

Towards In­ter­na­tion­al­ist Conservativism

freedomandutility9 May 2023 14:18 UTC
12 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Virtue vs Obli­ga­tion (The Ca­plan-Singer De­bate)

Noah Topper9 May 2023 9:20 UTC
28 points
4 comments16 min readEA link
(naivebayes.substack.com)

How The EthiSizer Al­most Broke `Story’

Velikovsky_of_Newcastle8 May 2023 16:58 UTC
1 point
0 comments5 min readEA link

In­te­grat­ing the PACS In­sti­tute into the Effec­tive Altru­ism Move­ment: Seek­ing Reflec­tions and Advice

AndersReagan7 May 2023 21:02 UTC
11 points
6 comments2 min readEA link

Un­der­stand how other peo­ple think: a the­ory of wor­ld­views.

spencerg3 May 2023 3:57 UTC
22 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] Values of a Space-Far­ing Civilization

Anthony Fleming30 Apr 2023 22:17 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Weigh­ing in solipsism

Liam28 Apr 2023 16:57 UTC
3 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

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

Aaron Gertler27 Apr 2023 22:44 UTC
179 points
9 comments6 min readEA link

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

callum27 Apr 2023 10:09 UTC
77 points
23 comments1 min readEA link

My ver­sion of Si­mu­lacra Levels

kokotajlod26 Apr 2023 19:06 UTC
24 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

David Ed­monds’s bi­og­ra­phy of Parfit is out

Pablo23 Apr 2023 12:25 UTC
115 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

Im­par­tial­ity is not baked in to Christianity

Luke Eure23 Apr 2023 9:16 UTC
32 points
20 comments1 min readEA link

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

Maxim Vandaele22 Apr 2023 14:42 UTC
26 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

moral­ity for the rad­i­cal pessimist

Anon77721 Apr 2023 10:50 UTC
0 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

What We Deserve

Leopold Brown20 Apr 2023 7:43 UTC
4 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

Com­mu­ni­ca­tor Ap­ti­tude—Fun The­ory Sum­mary and Writeup

Leopold Brown20 Apr 2023 7:43 UTC
2 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Scien­tism vs. people

Roman Leventov18 Apr 2023 17:52 UTC
0 points
0 comments11 min readEA link

Who were The Righ­teous Among the Na­tions?

Carole Bibas-Barkan18 Apr 2023 16:59 UTC
61 points
4 comments2 min readEA link
(yadvashem.org)

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

Maxim Vandaele17 Apr 2023 17:29 UTC
10 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

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

ishaan15 Apr 2023 9:41 UTC
53 points
0 comments20 min readEA link

“The Tango of Ethics”—Book launch and discussion

Rasool14 Apr 2023 8:40 UTC
16 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

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

jackchang11013 Apr 2023 16:29 UTC
1 point
3 comments1 min readEA link

The Real­ity Mind­set and the Mythol­ogy Mindset

James Aitchison10 Apr 2023 15:18 UTC
3 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(jamesaitchison.co.uk)

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

Jim Buhler9 Apr 2023 17:43 UTC
40 points
9 comments3 min readEA link

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

The Orthog­o­nal­ity Th­e­sis is Not Ob­vi­ously True

Omnizoid5 Apr 2023 21:08 UTC
18 points
12 comments9 min readEA link

Prob­a­bil­ities, Pri­ori­ti­za­tion, and ‘Bayesian Mind­set’

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

What if we are the jel­lyfish of this mo­ment?

Dave Cortright3 Apr 2023 5:32 UTC
4 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Pes­simism about AI Safety

Max_He-Ho2 Apr 2023 7:57 UTC
5 points
0 comments25 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

The philos­o­phy of choos­ing be­tween ex­tend­ing and im­prov­ing lives

JohnW31 Mar 2023 23:44 UTC
28 points
1 comment5 min readEA link
(observablehq.com)

Hu­man Values and AGI Risk | William James

William James31 Mar 2023 22:30 UTC
1 point
0 comments12 min readEA link

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

Tyler Johnston31 Mar 2023 22:15 UTC
20 points
2 comments4 min readEA link
(www.goodreads.com)

New­comb’s Para­dox Explained

Alex Vellins31 Mar 2023 21:26 UTC
2 points
11 comments2 min readEA link

Should we pri­or­tize cog­ni­tive sci­ence in EA?

jackchang11029 Mar 2023 10:11 UTC
7 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Re­solv­ing moral un­cer­tainty with randomization

Bob Jacobs29 Mar 2023 10:10 UTC
29 points
3 comments10 min readEA link

On­line Work­ing /​ Com­mu­nity Meetup for the Abo­li­tion of Suffering

Ruth_Fr.27 Mar 2023 18:44 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

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

jackchang11027 Mar 2023 10:32 UTC
33 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Ex­plor­ing Tacit Linked Premises with GPT

RomeoStevens24 Mar 2023 22:50 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

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

Jim Buhler24 Mar 2023 19:15 UTC
62 points
10 comments3 min readEA link

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

Mirage24 Mar 2023 13:50 UTC
1 point
0 comments7 min readEA link

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

Tobias Häberli22 Mar 2023 12:29 UTC
5 points
0 comments21 min readEA link

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

Holly Morgan21 Mar 2023 22:07 UTC
40 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Com­mon-sense sen­tience is dubious

Timothy Chan21 Mar 2023 15:32 UTC
23 points
4 comments7 min readEA link

The He­donic Tread­mill Dilemma – Reflect­ing on the Sto­ries of Wile E. Coyote

alexherwix20 Mar 2023 9:06 UTC
28 points
1 comment7 min readEA link

Why SoGive is pub­lish­ing an in­de­pen­dent eval­u­a­tion of StrongMinds

ishaan17 Mar 2023 22:46 UTC
99 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

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

rgb17 Mar 2023 22:25 UTC
24 points
0 comments25 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

Sym­bio­sis, not al­ign­ment, as the goal for liberal democ­ra­cies in the tran­si­tion to ar­tifi­cial gen­eral intelligence

simonfriederich17 Mar 2023 13:04 UTC
18 points
2 comments24 min readEA link
(rdcu.be)

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

Conrad S17 Mar 2023 10:17 UTC
73 points
10 comments10 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

Dona­tion offsets for ChatGPT Plus subscriptions

Jeffrey Ladish16 Mar 2023 23:11 UTC
76 points
10 comments3 min readEA link

Re­mind­ing my­self just how awful pain can get (plus, an ex­per­i­ment on my­self)

Ren Ryba15 Mar 2023 22:44 UTC
290 points
57 comments16 min readEA link

80k pod­cast epi­sode on sen­tience in AI systems

rgb15 Mar 2023 20:19 UTC
85 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

AI safety and con­scious­ness re­search: A brainstorm

Daniel_Friedrich15 Mar 2023 14:33 UTC
11 points
1 comment9 min readEA link

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

Global Priorities Institute13 Mar 2023 18:05 UTC
70 points
4 comments5 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

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

Global Priorities Institute13 Mar 2023 18:05 UTC
70 points
4 comments5 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

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

Ramiro10 Mar 2023 13:25 UTC
20 points
0 comments10 min readEA link
(www.conjur.com.br)

EA needs Life-Veter­ans and “Less Smart” people

Jeffrey Kursonis8 Mar 2023 15:59 UTC
79 points
38 comments4 min readEA link

EA needs Life-Veter­ans and “Less Smart” people

Jeffrey Kursonis8 Mar 2023 15:59 UTC
79 points
38 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] Math­e­mat­i­cal mod­els of Ethics

Victor-SB8 Mar 2023 10:50 UTC
6 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

[Question] Math­e­mat­i­cal mod­els of Ethics

Victor-SB8 Mar 2023 10:50 UTC
6 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Un­der heaven’s eyes: For the dig­nity of consequentialism

Philosophy Bear6 Mar 2023 23:00 UTC
29 points
1 comment12 min readEA link
(substack.com)

Un­der heaven’s eyes: For the dig­nity of consequentialism

Philosophy Bear6 Mar 2023 23:00 UTC
29 points
1 comment12 min readEA link
(substack.com)

Acausal normalcy

Andrew Critch3 Mar 2023 23:35 UTC
21 points
4 comments8 min readEA link

Acausal normalcy

Andrew Critch3 Mar 2023 23:35 UTC
21 points
4 comments8 min readEA link

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

Ramiro3 Mar 2023 18:59 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

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

Ramiro3 Mar 2023 18:59 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Joscha Bach on Syn­thetic In­tel­li­gence [an­no­tated]

Roman Leventov2 Mar 2023 11:21 UTC
2 points
0 comments9 min readEA link
(www.jimruttshow.com)

Joscha Bach on Syn­thetic In­tel­li­gence [an­no­tated]

Roman Leventov2 Mar 2023 11:21 UTC
2 points
0 comments9 min readEA link
(www.jimruttshow.com)

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

MichaelDello2 Mar 2023 4:36 UTC
19 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

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

MichaelDello2 Mar 2023 4:36 UTC
19 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

How truth­ful can LLMs be: a the­o­ret­i­cal per­spec­tive with a re­quest for help from ex­perts on The­o­ret­i­cal CS

sergia1 Mar 2023 15:43 UTC
8 points
1 comment3 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

How truth­ful can LLMs be: a the­o­ret­i­cal per­spec­tive with a re­quest for help from ex­perts on The­o­ret­i­cal CS

sergia1 Mar 2023 15:43 UTC
8 points
1 comment3 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Coun­ter­pro­duc­tive Altru­ism: The Other Heavy Tail

Vasco Grilo1 Mar 2023 9:58 UTC
186 points
8 comments7 min readEA link
(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

Coun­ter­pro­duc­tive Altru­ism: The Other Heavy Tail

Vasco Grilo1 Mar 2023 9:58 UTC
186 points
8 comments7 min readEA link
(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

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

Geoffrey Miller26 Feb 2023 2:34 UTC
18 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

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

Geoffrey Miller26 Feb 2023 2:34 UTC
18 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Exit Duty Gen­er­a­tor by Matti Häyry

Oldphan24 Feb 2023 20:36 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.cambridge.org)

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

No Room for Poli­ti­cal Philosophy

Arturo Macias21 Feb 2023 16:14 UTC
16 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

No Room for Poli­ti­cal Philosophy

Arturo Macias21 Feb 2023 16:14 UTC
16 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

There are no co­her­ence theorems

EJT20 Feb 2023 21:52 UTC
104 points
49 comments19 min readEA link

EA Lifestyles: Filial Piety and EA

Kirsten20 Feb 2023 19:57 UTC
35 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(ealifestyles.substack.com)

What to think when a lan­guage model tells you it’s sentient

rgb20 Feb 2023 2:59 UTC
112 points
18 comments6 min readEA link

Should ChatGPT make us down­weight our be­lief in the con­scious­ness of non-hu­man an­i­mals?

splinter18 Feb 2023 23:29 UTC
11 points
15 comments2 min readEA link

Should ChatGPT make us down­weight our be­lief in the con­scious­ness of non-hu­man an­i­mals?

splinter18 Feb 2023 23:29 UTC
11 points
15 comments2 min readEA link

Deon­tic Fictionalism

Richard Y Chappell17 Feb 2023 13:44 UTC
37 points
7 comments4 min readEA link
(rychappell.substack.com)

See­ing more whole

Joe_Carlsmith17 Feb 2023 5:14 UTC
127 points
8 comments26 min readEA link

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

Markus Bredberg15 Feb 2023 2:19 UTC
2 points
4 comments15 min readEA link

Michael Levin, Scien­tific Panpsy­chism and Teleology

Fergus Fettes12 Feb 2023 18:21 UTC
19 points
3 comments7 min readEA link

Short sum­mary of What We Owe The Future

finm12 Feb 2023 16:27 UTC
29 points
3 comments7 min readEA link
(finmoorhouse.com)

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

tobycrisford11 Feb 2023 18:29 UTC
25 points
31 comments7 min readEA link

Overview | An Eval­u­a­tive Evolu­tion

Matt Keene10 Feb 2023 18:15 UTC
−9 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
(www.creatingafuturewewant.com)

Maybe longter­mism isn’t for everyone

BrownHairedEevee10 Feb 2023 16:48 UTC
39 points
17 comments1 min readEA link

Tech­nol­ogy is Power: Rais­ing Aware­ness Of Tech­nolog­i­cal Risks

Marc Wong9 Feb 2023 15:13 UTC
3 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

De­con­fu­sion Part 3 - EA Com­mu­nity and So­cial Structure

Davidmanheim9 Feb 2023 8:19 UTC
83 points
4 comments8 min readEA link

2023 Public Philos­o­phy Net­work Con­fer­ence on “Fac­ing Tech­nol­ogy: The Role of Public Philos­o­phy” @ UC Santa Cruz—Call for Proposals

ianolasov8 Feb 2023 21:57 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Linkpost] Michael Hue­mer on the case for Bayesian statistics

John G. Halstead7 Feb 2023 17:52 UTC
20 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

What ac­tu­ally is “value-al­ign­ment”?

ConcernedEAs7 Feb 2023 16:02 UTC
3 points
9 comments5 min readEA link

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

Dave Cortright7 Feb 2023 3:52 UTC
1 point
6 comments3 min readEA link

Shal­low in­ves­ti­ga­tion: Loneliness

Em6 Feb 2023 17:20 UTC
152 points
14 comments30 min readEA link

Shal­low in­ves­ti­ga­tion: Loneliness

Em6 Feb 2023 17:20 UTC
152 points
14 comments30 min readEA link

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

Davidmanheim5 Feb 2023 10:13 UTC
44 points
4 comments10 min readEA link

A dis­cus­sion with ChatGPT on value-based mod­els vs. large lan­guage mod­els, etc..

Miguel4 Feb 2023 16:49 UTC
4 points
0 comments12 min readEA link
(www.whitehatstoic.com)

A dis­cus­sion with ChatGPT on value-based mod­els vs. large lan­guage mod­els, etc..

Miguel4 Feb 2023 16:49 UTC
4 points
0 comments12 min readEA link
(www.whitehatstoic.com)

[Question] What do EA’s think about Bayesian in­fer­ences ver­sus other types?

Noah Scales4 Feb 2023 11:09 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What do EA’s think about Bayesian in­fer­ences ver­sus other types?

Noah Scales4 Feb 2023 11:09 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

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

peterhartree4 Feb 2023 11:08 UTC
11 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

Puz­zles for Some

Violet Hour3 Feb 2023 12:23 UTC
20 points
4 comments7 min readEA link

Puz­zles for Some

Violet Hour3 Feb 2023 12:23 UTC
20 points
4 comments7 min readEA link

Align­ing Self-In­ter­est With Sur­vival And Thriving

Marc Wong1 Feb 2023 16:15 UTC
3 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Align­ing Self-In­ter­est With Sur­vival And Thriving

Marc Wong1 Feb 2023 16:15 UTC
3 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Ques­tions about AI that bother me

Eleni_A31 Jan 2023 6:50 UTC
33 points
6 comments2 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

De­con­fus­ing Effec­tive Altru­ism: The Philosophy

Davidmanheim29 Jan 2023 18:09 UTC
39 points
1 comment7 min readEA link

Non-util­i­tar­ian effec­tive altruism

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

‘Evolu­tion­ary de­bunk­ing ar­gu­ments’ about hu­man moral intuitions

Geoffrey Miller27 Jan 2023 23:44 UTC
27 points
24 comments1 min readEA link

‘Evolu­tion­ary de­bunk­ing ar­gu­ments’ about hu­man moral intuitions

Geoffrey Miller27 Jan 2023 23:44 UTC
27 points
24 comments1 min readEA link

High­est pri­or­ity threat: in­finite tor­ture

KArax26 Jan 2023 8:51 UTC
−39 points
1 comment9 min readEA link

High­est pri­or­ity threat: in­finite tor­ture

KArax26 Jan 2023 8:51 UTC
−39 points
1 comment9 min readEA link

Why EA needs to be more conservative

Further or Alternatively23 Jan 2023 20:47 UTC
3 points
9 comments10 min readEA link

Why EA needs to be more conservative

Further or Alternatively23 Jan 2023 20:47 UTC
3 points
9 comments10 min readEA link

Find­ing bugs in GiveWell’s top charities

Vasco Grilo23 Jan 2023 16:49 UTC
42 points
14 comments6 min readEA link

Re­think Pri­ori­ties’ Welfare Range Estimates

Bob Fischer23 Jan 2023 11:37 UTC
336 points
103 comments16 min readEA link

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

dawsoneliasen23 Jan 2023 3:24 UTC
4 points
2 comments8 min readEA link

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

dawsoneliasen23 Jan 2023 3:24 UTC
4 points
2 comments8 min readEA link

Emerg­ing Paradigms: The Case of Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence Safety

Eleni_A18 Jan 2023 5:59 UTC
16 points
0 comments19 min readEA link

Emerg­ing Paradigms: The Case of Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence Safety

Eleni_A18 Jan 2023 5:59 UTC
16 points
0 comments19 min readEA link

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

EA Italy17 Jan 2023 20:17 UTC
1 point
0 comments4 min readEA link

Do­ing EA Better

ConcernedEAs17 Jan 2023 20:09 UTC
262 points
382 comments70 min readEA link

[Opz­ionale] Perché prob­a­bil­mente non sono una lungoterminista

EA Italy17 Jan 2023 18:12 UTC
1 point
0 comments8 min readEA link

Re­place Neglectedness

Indra Gesink16 Jan 2023 17:42 UTC
51 points
4 comments4 min readEA link

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

Philosophy Bear14 Jan 2023 7:07 UTC
18 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Are there lives not worth liv­ing?

Pof13 Jan 2023 17:48 UTC
7 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Linkpost: Big Wins for Farm An­i­mals This Decade

James Özden11 Jan 2023 17:30 UTC
71 points
4 comments4 min readEA link
(us14.campaign-archive.com)

Linkpost: Big Wins for Farm An­i­mals This Decade

James Özden11 Jan 2023 17:30 UTC
71 points
4 comments4 min readEA link
(us14.campaign-archive.com)

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

Dhruv Makwana11 Jan 2023 13:48 UTC
23 points
0 comments11 min readEA link

Part 1/​4: A Case for Abolition

Dhruv Makwana11 Jan 2023 13:46 UTC
33 points
7 comments3 min readEA link

Part 1/​4: A Case for Abolition

Dhruv Makwana11 Jan 2023 13:46 UTC
33 points
7 comments3 min readEA link

Gene Ther­apy for Mood Improvement

Ray Allen11 Jan 2023 6:19 UTC
7 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

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

Emily9 Jan 2023 20:47 UTC
42 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

Amer­ica & the Shape of the Far Future

Aidan Fitzsimons9 Jan 2023 6:03 UTC
8 points
1 comment12 min readEA link

In­finite Ethics—Sketch Part 1: Ex­plo­ra­tions with Sur­re­als

Chris Leong9 Jan 2023 0:44 UTC
9 points
5 comments4 min readEA link

New ver­sion of Men­tal Health Nav­i­ga­tor website

Emily8 Jan 2023 21:37 UTC
22 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

Po­ten­tial Fu­ture People

TeddyW8 Jan 2023 17:20 UTC
11 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

EA uni­ver­sity groups are miss­ing out on most of their po­ten­tial

Johan de Kock7 Jan 2023 12:44 UTC
50 points
15 comments29 min readEA link

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

Juergen6 Jan 2023 18:59 UTC
6 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

On be­ing compromised

Gavin5 Jan 2023 12:56 UTC
187 points
46 comments1 min readEA link

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

Sherry 4 Jan 2023 22:11 UTC
7 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

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

jonleighton2 Jan 2023 8:45 UTC
113 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

[Opz­ionale] Ri­sorse da es­plo­rare su ‘Em­pa­tia Rad­i­cale’

EA Italy31 Dec 2022 4:57 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readEA link

Eser­cizio per “Em­pa­tia Rad­i­cale” (15 minuti)

EA Italy31 Dec 2022 4:54 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link

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

EA Italy31 Dec 2022 4:17 UTC
1 point
0 comments5 min readEA link

Le idee “es­treme”

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

Em­pa­tia Radicale

EA Italy31 Dec 2022 4:08 UTC
1 point
0 comments6 min readEA link

Ex­treme risk neu­tral­ity isn’t always wrong

Grant Demaree31 Dec 2022 4:03 UTC
12 points
6 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] When strol­ling through the park, you find a wallet on the ground. Upon ex­am­in­ing it, you no­tice that it has 200 dol­lars in it and it be­longs to your neigh­bor Mr. James. Should you re­turn the wallet or keep it and donate the money?

Eduardo30 Dec 2022 21:59 UTC
−12 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

The Non-Iden­tity Prob­lem ex­plained col­lo­quially

Alex Vellins27 Dec 2022 7:22 UTC
2 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

What would you do if you were the only in­tel­li­gent be­ing in the uni­verse?

Jonathan Yan27 Dec 2022 3:54 UTC
7 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

What would you do if you were the only in­tel­li­gent be­ing in the uni­verse?

Jonathan Yan27 Dec 2022 3:54 UTC
7 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Sa­vor­ing my moral circle

Angelina Li26 Dec 2022 3:02 UTC
87 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Why I am happy to re­ject the pos­si­bil­ity of in­finite worlds

Vasco Grilo25 Dec 2022 19:51 UTC
13 points
42 comments3 min readEA link

May The Fac­tory Farms Burn

Omnizoid25 Dec 2022 8:48 UTC
202 points
27 comments14 min readEA link

What you pri­ori­tise is mostly moral intuition

James Özden24 Dec 2022 12:06 UTC
73 points
8 comments12 min readEA link

On sincerity

Joe_Carlsmith23 Dec 2022 17:14 UTC
46 points
3 comments42 min readEA link

Against philan­thropic diversification

Jack Malde22 Dec 2022 13:28 UTC
44 points
18 comments3 min readEA link
(ethicaleconomist.substack.com)

Ve­ga­pho­bia—A Brief Presentation

dlnrbts28320 Dec 2022 21:08 UTC
10 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

New blog: Some doubts about effec­tive altruism

David Thorstad20 Dec 2022 19:34 UTC
124 points
36 comments4 min readEA link

A Case for Vol­un­tary Abor­tion Reduction

Ariel Simnegar20 Dec 2022 13:23 UTC
27 points
149 comments13 min readEA link

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

Global Priorities Institute20 Dec 2022 11:00 UTC
21 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

MORE Effec­tive Altruism

Marty Nemko19 Dec 2022 23:19 UTC
1 point
4 comments1 min readEA link

Why I think that teach­ing philos­o­phy is high impact

Eleni_A19 Dec 2022 23:00 UTC
17 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Why I think that teach­ing philos­o­phy is high impact

Eleni_A19 Dec 2022 23:00 UTC
17 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

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

MMMaas19 Dec 2022 15:30 UTC
62 points
3 comments9 min readEA link

What we owe the microbiome

TeddyW17 Dec 2022 16:17 UTC
12 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

List of rea­sons to dis­count the welfare of fu­ture generations

freedomandutility17 Dec 2022 14:26 UTC
5 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

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

Joseph Lemien17 Dec 2022 14:15 UTC
8 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

The Rules of Res­cue—out now!

Theron17 Dec 2022 9:02 UTC
59 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

[Draft] In­creas­ing Em­pa­thy as a new Cause Area

Christoph Hartmann17 Dec 2022 1:29 UTC
12 points
4 comments7 min readEA link

[Draft] In­creas­ing Em­pa­thy as a new Cause Area

Christoph Hartmann17 Dec 2022 1:29 UTC
12 points
4 comments7 min readEA link

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

Global Priorities Institute16 Dec 2022 16:12 UTC
18 points
3 comments5 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Ex­is­ten­tial Risks: Hu­man Rights

Chiharu Saruwatari15 Dec 2022 12:35 UTC
4 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

Direct Shar­ing, con­sent and men­tal health on­line: an open pro­posal for so­cial me­dia with­out “an al­gorithm”, CC A

sergia14 Dec 2022 23:35 UTC
−1 points
1 comment10 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

[Question] EA’s Achieve­ments in 2022

ElliotJDavies14 Dec 2022 14:33 UTC
98 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

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

Richard Y Chappell12 Dec 2022 16:05 UTC
144 points
35 comments2 min readEA link

Oc­to­puses (Prob­a­bly) Don’t Have Nine Minds

Bob Fischer12 Dec 2022 11:59 UTC
94 points
19 comments10 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

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

Patrick Liu10 Dec 2022 13:53 UTC
3 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Talk - ‘Car­ing for the Far Fu­ture’

Yadav9 Dec 2022 16:58 UTC
13 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(youtu.be)

The case for offset­ting meat consumption

Ariel Pontes8 Dec 2022 10:22 UTC
12 points
5 comments1 min readEA link
(arielpontes.medium.com)

Con­se­quen­tial­ism does not en­dorse fraud­ing-to-give

Jasper Meyer7 Dec 2022 17:40 UTC
20 points
9 comments3 min readEA link

Pro­mot­ing com­pas­sion­ate longtermism

jonleighton7 Dec 2022 14:26 UTC
117 points
5 comments12 min readEA link

The Cat­e­gor­i­cal Im­per­a­tive Ob­scures Ethics

Gordon Seidoh Worley6 Dec 2022 17:48 UTC
9 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Rocks teach you about, like, liv­ing with your­self.

Phosphorous6 Dec 2022 4:26 UTC
25 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

On the Differ­ences Between Eco­mod­ernism and Effec­tive Altruism

PeterSlattery6 Dec 2022 1:21 UTC
38 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(thebreakthrough.org)

Should strong longter­mists re­ally want to min­i­mize ex­is­ten­tial risk?

tobycrisford4 Dec 2022 16:56 UTC
31 points
9 comments4 min readEA link

Byrne Ho­bart & Dwarkesh Pa­tel on hard­core be­liev­ers, monas­ter­ies, and effec­tive altruism

peterhartree3 Dec 2022 22:00 UTC
31 points
7 comments7 min readEA link

Utili­tar­i­anism is the only op­tion

aelwood3 Dec 2022 17:14 UTC
3 points
3 comments6 min readEA link
(pursuingreality.substack.com)

Against meta-eth­i­cal hedonism

Joe_Carlsmith2 Dec 2022 0:19 UTC
21 points
2 comments35 min readEA link

Be­ware fric­tions from al­tru­is­tic value differences

Magnus Vinding1 Dec 2022 18:58 UTC
97 points
7 comments5 min readEA link

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

c.trout1 Dec 2022 4:21 UTC
10 points
31 comments16 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

SBF Deal­book Thread

Daedalus30 Nov 2022 23:02 UTC
24 points
34 comments1 min readEA link
(www.nytimes.com)

Fu­ture peo­ple might not ex­ist

Indra Gesink30 Nov 2022 19:17 UTC
18 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Busi­ness ethics within the EA framework

Bloop30 Nov 2022 6:31 UTC
11 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Con­se­quen­tial­ism as an ex­per­i­men­tal discipline

vandermude29 Nov 2022 6:07 UTC
9 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Fair Col­lec­tive Effec­tive Altruism

Jobst Heitzig (vodle.it)28 Nov 2022 13:35 UTC
5 points
1 comment5 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

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

Adam Shriver28 Nov 2022 12:07 UTC
288 points
45 comments9 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

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

Elijah Hoole27 Nov 2022 5:42 UTC
−12 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(www.thehindu.com)

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

Mahendra Prasad26 Nov 2022 1:53 UTC
13 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Sen­tience In­sti­tute 2022 End of Year Summary

MichaelDello25 Nov 2022 12:28 UTC
48 points
0 comments7 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

Evolu­tion, Pain, Suffer­ing, and Ed Yong

MattBall24 Nov 2022 13:36 UTC
13 points
4 comments2 min readEA link
(www.mattball.org)

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

emmannaemeka24 Nov 2022 3:30 UTC
7 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

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

James_Banks23 Nov 2022 4:52 UTC
2 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Utili­tar­i­anism Meets Egalitarianism

Scott Garrabrant22 Nov 2022 4:06 UTC
24 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the first is­sue of Asterisk

Clara Collier21 Nov 2022 18:51 UTC
275 points
47 comments1 min readEA link

Derek Parfit’s pho­tographs of Venice

peterhartree18 Nov 2022 17:10 UTC
31 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

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

MichaelPlant18 Nov 2022 12:09 UTC
150 points
40 comments24 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

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

emmannaemeka17 Nov 2022 21:55 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link

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

Jordan Arel17 Nov 2022 17:31 UTC
6 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

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

Jan_Kulveit17 Nov 2022 9:20 UTC
55 points
11 comments10 min readEA link

Stop Over­re­act­ing re: FTX /​ SBF

MattBall16 Nov 2022 23:40 UTC
51 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

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

vmasarik16 Nov 2022 19:05 UTC
9 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Ques­tions about Value Lock-in, Pa­ter­nal­ism, and Empowerment

Sam Brown16 Nov 2022 15:33 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Deon­tol­ogy is not the solution

Peter McLaughlin16 Nov 2022 14:22 UTC
38 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

The moral prob­lem of offsetting

Yatlas15 Nov 2022 20:02 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

The­o­ries of Welfare and Welfare Range Estimates

Bob Fischer14 Nov 2022 13:52 UTC
91 points
22 comments9 min readEA link

Effec­tive Peer Sup­port Net­work in FTX crisis (Up­date)

Emily14 Nov 2022 12:09 UTC
133 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Wrong les­sons from the FTX catastrophe

burner14 Nov 2022 0:39 UTC
282 points
20 comments4 min readEA link

In Defence of Tem­po­ral Dis­count­ing in Longter­mist Ethics

𝕮𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖗𝖆13 Nov 2022 21:30 UTC
17 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

X-risk Miti­ga­tion Does Ac­tu­ally Re­quire Longter­mism

𝕮𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖗𝖆13 Nov 2022 19:40 UTC
35 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Tainted dona­tions: a his­tor­i­cal per­spec­tive from Rho­dri Davies

Sanjay13 Nov 2022 16:37 UTC
24 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.philanthropisms.com)

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

hawkebia13 Nov 2022 14:48 UTC
1 point
3 comments4 min readEA link

In favour of com­pas­sion, and against band­wag­ons of outrage

Emrik13 Nov 2022 0:42 UTC
154 points
33 comments2 min readEA link

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

Sam Battis12 Nov 2022 23:04 UTC
27 points
10 comments8 min readEA link

EA should con­sider ex­plic­itly re­ject­ing *pure* clas­si­cal to­tal utilitarianism

freedomandutility12 Nov 2022 17:52 UTC
−13 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

A per­sonal state­ment on FTX

William_MacAskill12 Nov 2022 16:40 UTC
286 points
144 comments2 min readEA link

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

qiaochu_fan12 Nov 2022 10:48 UTC
−25 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

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

sawyer11 Nov 2022 16:52 UTC
52 points
39 comments1 min readEA link

Yes, ly­ing has bad con­se­quences.

strawberry calm11 Nov 2022 5:27 UTC
5 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

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

evhub10 Nov 2022 23:31 UTC
717 points
84 comments3 min readEA link

Differ­ence, Pro­jec­tion, and Adaptation

YOG10 Nov 2022 10:46 UTC
0 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

In (Praise?) of Ineffec­tive Altuism

Edward Farrelly10 Nov 2022 9:47 UTC
−7 points
6 comments6 min readEA link

An In­ter­view With Kat Woods

SereneDesiree10 Nov 2022 9:41 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

[Question] What should I ask Joe Car­l­smith — Open Phil re­searcher, philoso­pher and blog­ger?

Robert_Wiblin9 Nov 2022 22:04 UTC
33 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

How can we do the most good? EA ques­tion, My lo­cal com­mu­nity ex­pe­rience.

emmannaemeka8 Nov 2022 8:04 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

The Welfare Range Table

Bob Fischer7 Nov 2022 10:19 UTC
358 points
17 comments8 min readEA link

His­tor­i­cal ex­pe­rience and links to sub­jec­tive happiness

Arno6 Nov 2022 19:05 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Jane English on Rawls and du­ties to fu­ture generations

William D'Alessandro6 Nov 2022 14:25 UTC
12 points
3 comments6 min readEA link

A Con­sti­tu­tion For The Future

Miguel6 Nov 2022 2:04 UTC
1 point
48 comments2 min readEA link
(www.whitehatstoic.com)

Some non-util­i­tar­ian readings

banon5 Nov 2022 20:52 UTC
6 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Some non-util­i­tar­ian readings

banon5 Nov 2022 20:52 UTC
6 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Is it eth­i­cal to ex­pand nu­clear en­ergy use?

simonfriederich5 Nov 2022 10:38 UTC
12 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

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

Daniel_Friedrich4 Nov 2022 14:34 UTC
9 points
1 comment2 min readEA link
(www.facebook.com)

Right­ing past wrongs by re­cov­er­ing past lives via simulation

MaxRa4 Nov 2022 8:18 UTC
28 points
19 comments3 min readEA link

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

Holly_Elmore3 Nov 2022 18:18 UTC
57 points
16 comments4 min readEA link

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

jorges3 Nov 2022 0:05 UTC
18 points
4 comments4 min readEA link

Mini sum­maries of GPI papers

Jack Malde2 Nov 2022 22:33 UTC
97 points
17 comments6 min readEA link

Mind is uncountable

Filip Sondej2 Nov 2022 11:53 UTC
25 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

Hard Prob­lems in GiveWell’s Mo­ral Weights Approach

Tanae1 Nov 2022 4:51 UTC
36 points
3 comments9 min readEA link

Multi-Fac­tor De­ci­sion Mak­ing Math

Elliot Temple30 Oct 2022 16:46 UTC
1 point
13 comments37 min readEA link
(criticalfallibilism.com)

A pro­posed hi­er­ar­chy of longter­mist concepts

Arepo30 Oct 2022 16:26 UTC
32 points
13 comments4 min readEA link

Longter­mist (es­pe­cially x-risk) ter­minol­ogy has bi­as­ing assumptions

Arepo30 Oct 2022 16:26 UTC
64 points
13 comments7 min readEA link

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

Steven Rouk28 Oct 2022 19:27 UTC
34 points
1 comment10 min readEA link

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

Maynk0227 Oct 2022 16:47 UTC
11 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Child ques­tions about core as­pects of philanthropy

Cesar Scapella27 Oct 2022 15:25 UTC
3 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

Min­i­mal­ist ex­tended very re­pug­nant con­clu­sions are the least repugnant

Teo Ajantaival24 Oct 2022 9:46 UTC
74 points
0 comments19 min readEA link

Let us know how psy­chol­ogy can help in­crease your impact

Inga21 Oct 2022 10:32 UTC
30 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

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

Vasco Grilo20 Oct 2022 10:39 UTC
18 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

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

Vasco Grilo20 Oct 2022 10:39 UTC
18 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

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

GidiKadosh19 Oct 2022 18:19 UTC
88 points
15 comments6 min readEA link

In­sti­tu­tions and Longter­mism Read­ing List

Luis Mota Freitas19 Oct 2022 11:56 UTC
30 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism’s Im­plicit Epistemology

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

Fal­li­bil­ism, Bias, and the Rule of Law

Elliot Temple17 Oct 2022 23:59 UTC
14 points
6 comments13 min readEA link
(criticalfallibilism.com)

Fal­li­bil­ism, Bias, and the Rule of Law

Elliot Temple17 Oct 2022 23:59 UTC
14 points
6 comments13 min readEA link
(criticalfallibilism.com)

Con­se­quen­tial­ism and Cluelessness

Richard Y Chappell17 Oct 2022 18:57 UTC
32 points
5 comments9 min readEA link
(rychappell.substack.com)

Alien Counterfactuals

Charlie_Guthmann17 Oct 2022 17:33 UTC
17 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

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

ben.smith16 Oct 2022 17:56 UTC
27 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.linkedin.com)

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

ben.smith16 Oct 2022 17:56 UTC
27 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.linkedin.com)

Sign of qual­ity of life in GiveWell’s analyses

brb24316 Oct 2022 14:54 UTC
57 points
19 comments3 min readEA link

The prop­erty rights ap­proach to moral uncertainty

Harry R. Lloyd14 Oct 2022 16:49 UTC
31 points
14 comments2 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

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

LiaH14 Oct 2022 16:15 UTC
4 points
3 comments6 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 Roy14 Oct 2022 14:06 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Mea­sur­ing Good Better

MichaelPlant14 Oct 2022 13:36 UTC
233 points
19 comments15 min readEA link

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

Global Priorities Institute14 Oct 2022 9:24 UTC
37 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Against the nor­ma­tive re­al­ist’s wager

Joe_Carlsmith13 Oct 2022 16:36 UTC
27 points
5 comments23 min readEA link

Parfit + Singer + Aliens = ?

Maxwell Tabarrok12 Oct 2022 15:50 UTC
88 points
23 comments6 min readEA link
(maximumprogress.substack.com)

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

Global Priorities Institute11 Oct 2022 11:29 UTC
39 points
5 comments4 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

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

Vasco Grilo8 Oct 2022 21:08 UTC
19 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

The Biggest Prob­lem with Deon­tol­ogy: The Ag­gre­ga­tion Problem

Arjun Panickssery8 Oct 2022 3:41 UTC
10 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Bud­dha Was An Effec­tive Altruist

maximizealtruism7 Oct 2022 23:28 UTC
8 points
6 comments6 min readEA link

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

David Mathers7 Oct 2022 13:36 UTC
34 points
3 comments7 min readEA link

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

David Mathers7 Oct 2022 13:36 UTC
35 points
1 comment8 min readEA link

Notes on sup­port­ing Hap­pier Lives Institute

Pawel Sysiak6 Oct 2022 13:01 UTC
20 points
2 comments6 min readEA link

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

Fai5 Oct 2022 18:55 UTC
60 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Against longter­mism: a care-cen­tric ap­proach?

Aron P2 Oct 2022 5:00 UTC
21 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Global life satis­fac­tion distribution

Vasco Grilo1 Oct 2022 15:39 UTC
18 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Strange Love—Devel­op­ing Em­pa­thy With In­ten­tion (or: How I Learned To Stop Calcu­lat­ing And Love The Cause)

EdoArad1 Oct 2022 14:03 UTC
76 points
5 comments4 min readEA link

Strange Love—Devel­op­ing Em­pa­thy With In­ten­tion (or: How I Learned To Stop Calcu­lat­ing And Love The Cause)

EdoArad1 Oct 2022 14:03 UTC
76 points
5 comments4 min readEA link

Win­ners of the EA Crit­i­cism and Red Team­ing Contest

Lizka1 Oct 2022 1:50 UTC
225 points
41 comments19 min readEA link

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

aaron_mai29 Sep 2022 11:24 UTC
10 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(citeseerx.ist.psu.edu)

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

aaron_mai29 Sep 2022 11:24 UTC
10 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(citeseerx.ist.psu.edu)

Will Values and Com­pe­ti­tion De­cou­ple?

interstice28 Sep 2022 16:32 UTC
6 points
0 comments17 min readEA link

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

Magnus Vinding28 Sep 2022 8:58 UTC
87 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
(centerforreducingsuffering.org)

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

Vadim Albinsky27 Sep 2022 16:28 UTC
258 points
45 comments10 min readEA link

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

algekalipso23 Sep 2022 6:20 UTC
75 points
3 comments9 min readEA link

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

Vasco Grilo22 Sep 2022 6:41 UTC
8 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

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

Vasco Grilo20 Sep 2022 16:30 UTC
16 points
11 comments3 min readEA link

Para­dox of Hedonism

Lorenzo Buscicchi18 Sep 2022 11:46 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(iep.utm.edu)

Robert Noz­ick’s Me­ta­verse Machine

Lorenzo Buscicchi18 Sep 2022 11:42 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(philosophynow.org)

Ex­pe­rience Machine

Lorenzo Buscicchi18 Sep 2022 9:05 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(iep.utm.edu)

There is no royal road to al­ign­ment

Eleni_A17 Sep 2022 13:24 UTC
18 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

There is no royal road to al­ign­ment

Eleni_A17 Sep 2022 13:24 UTC
18 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

“Do­ing Good Best” isn’t the EA ideal

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

Effec­tive vs Altruism

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

Mo­ral Cat­e­gories and Consequentialism

Peter Porcino15 Sep 2022 17:37 UTC
3 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

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

Tom Bry-Chevalier15 Sep 2022 10:59 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Key take­aways from Famine, Affluence, and Morality

2ndRichter14 Sep 2022 21:02 UTC
25 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

Key take­aways from Famine, Affluence, and Morality

2ndRichter14 Sep 2022 21:02 UTC
25 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

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

Peter_Layman14 Sep 2022 15:44 UTC
−16 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(twitter.com)

Path­ways to vic­tory: How can we end an­i­mal agri­cul­ture?

Animal Ask14 Sep 2022 15:33 UTC
88 points
6 comments62 min readEA link

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

Yanay12 Sep 2022 23:28 UTC
24 points
17 comments1 min readEA link

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

Zoe Williams12 Sep 2022 23:21 UTC
36 points
0 comments14 min readEA link

Con­tra Ap­piah Defend­ing Defend­ing “Cli­mate Villains”

Cullen12 Sep 2022 14:58 UTC
27 points
7 comments4 min readEA link

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

Joseph Lemien12 Sep 2022 11:49 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

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

timfarkas11 Sep 2022 1:11 UTC
34 points
1 comment2 min readEA link
(link.springer.com)

It’s (not) how you use it

Eleni_A7 Sep 2022 13:28 UTC
6 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Bernard Willi­ams: Ethics and the limits of impartiality

peterhartree7 Sep 2022 11:26 UTC
4 points
8 comments6 min readEA link
(notes.pjh.is)

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

Froolow6 Sep 2022 14:52 UTC
14 points
8 comments4 min readEA link

An Episte­molog­i­cal Ac­count of In­tu­itions in Science

Eleni_A3 Sep 2022 23:21 UTC
5 points
0 comments17 min readEA link

But what are *your* core val­ues?

Eleni_A3 Sep 2022 13:51 UTC
15 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Vi­su­al­iza­tions of the sig­nifi­cance—per­sis­tence—con­tin­gency framework

Jakob2 Sep 2022 18:22 UTC
27 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

EA is about max­i­miza­tion, and max­i­miza­tion is perilous

Holden Karnofsky2 Sep 2022 17:13 UTC
462 points
59 comments7 min readEA link

A Case Against Strong Longtermism

A. Wolff2 Sep 2022 16:40 UTC
9 points
4 comments39 min readEA link

EA Should Re­name Itself

Name Rectifier2 Sep 2022 4:28 UTC
1 point
0 comments16 min readEA link

Deon­tol­ogy, the Paral­y­sis Ar­gu­ment and al­tru­is­tic longtermism

William D'Alessandro2 Sep 2022 3:23 UTC
33 points
4 comments14 min readEA link

The Long Reflec­tion as the Great Stag­na­tion

Larks1 Sep 2022 20:55 UTC
43 points
2 comments8 min readEA link

[TikTok] Com­pa­ra­bil­ity be­tween suffer­ing and happiness

Ben_West1 Sep 2022 16:31 UTC
23 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

A dilemma for Max­i­mize Ex­pected Choice­wor­thi­ness (MEC)

Calvin_Baker1 Sep 2022 14:46 UTC
33 points
7 comments9 min readEA link

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

Joshua Clingo1 Sep 2022 7:34 UTC
18 points
2 comments12 min readEA link

On the Philo­soph­i­cal Foun­da­tions of EA

mm61 Sep 2022 7:34 UTC
35 points
10 comments22 min readEA link

On the Philo­soph­i­cal Foun­da­tions of EA

mm61 Sep 2022 7:34 UTC
35 points
10 comments22 min readEA link

On longter­mism, Bayesi­anism, and the dooms­day argument

iporphyry1 Sep 2022 0:27 UTC
30 points
5 comments12 min readEA link

Longter­mism and Com­pu­ta­tional Complexity

David Kinney31 Aug 2022 21:51 UTC
41 points
46 comments27 min readEA link

Effec­tive al­tru­ism in the gar­den of ends

tyleralterman31 Aug 2022 20:47 UTC
259 points
43 comments23 min readEA link

[Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes] Ad­verse Child­hood Experiences

tmadon31 Aug 2022 19:22 UTC
14 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

[Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes] Long-term relationships

Open Philanthropy31 Aug 2022 19:13 UTC
14 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

My favourite Holden Karnofsky es­says (pre Cold Takes)

DMMF31 Aug 2022 16:01 UTC
20 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Jus­tice and Global Pri­ori­ties Re­search Read­ing List

Luis Mota Freitas30 Aug 2022 19:46 UTC
34 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

We are still in triage

JulianHazell30 Aug 2022 13:59 UTC
43 points
2 comments3 min readEA link
(hazell.substack.com)

We are still in triage

JulianHazell30 Aug 2022 13:59 UTC
43 points
2 comments3 min readEA link
(hazell.substack.com)

Meth­ods for im­prov­ing un­cer­tainty anal­y­sis in EA cost-effec­tive­ness models

Froolow29 Aug 2022 18:07 UTC
127 points
8 comments36 min readEA link

The Niet­zschean Challenge to Effec­tive Altruism

Richard Y Chappell29 Aug 2022 14:39 UTC
97 points
15 comments7 min readEA link
(rychappell.substack.com)

The rea­son­able­ness of spe­cial concerns

jwt29 Aug 2022 0:10 UTC
3 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

A cri­tique of strong longtermism

Pablo Rosado28 Aug 2022 19:33 UTC
11 points
11 comments14 min readEA link

[Linkpost] Can lab-grown brains be­come con­scious?

Jack R28 Aug 2022 17:44 UTC
12 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Bit­ing the Bul­let on Pas­cal’s Mugging

Matthew Barber28 Aug 2022 15:30 UTC
5 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Does this solve Pas­cal’s Mug­gings?

Sanjay28 Aug 2022 14:44 UTC
15 points
26 comments4 min readEA link

R&D for Chem­i­cally Im­prov­ing Wel­lbe­ing in Healthy Population

Jonathan Gilat28 Aug 2022 4:59 UTC
23 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

Sym­pa­thec­tomies—The New Lobotomy

handoftheenemy27 Aug 2022 8:28 UTC
38 points
10 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] Was cen­tral place food shar­ing the origi­nal effec­tive al­tru­ism?

Lee Cronk27 Aug 2022 8:27 UTC
10 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

The His­tory of AI Rights Research

Jamie_Harris27 Aug 2022 8:14 UTC
44 points
1 comment14 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

The His­tory of AI Rights Research

Jamie_Harris27 Aug 2022 8:14 UTC
44 points
1 comment14 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

[Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes] Ex­pand­ing Cir­cles, Im­prov­ing Lives

Chad Patrick Osorio26 Aug 2022 9:55 UTC
6 points
0 comments17 min readEA link

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

RedStateBlueState23 Aug 2022 19:58 UTC
21 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

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

Magnus Vinding23 Aug 2022 9:21 UTC
219 points
115 comments8 min readEA link

The Repug­nant Con­clu­sion Isn’t

AppliedDivinityStudies23 Aug 2022 8:09 UTC
54 points
24 comments2 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the Longter­mism Fel­low­ship of EA Mu­nich—Ap­ply!

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

The Wages of North-At­lantic Bias

Sach Wry19 Aug 2022 12:34 UTC
8 points
2 comments17 min readEA link

What does moral progress con­sist of?

jasoncrawford19 Aug 2022 0:21 UTC
23 points
6 comments2 min readEA link

What does moral progress con­sist of?

jasoncrawford19 Aug 2022 0:21 UTC
23 points
6 comments2 min readEA link

What We Owe the Fu­ture, Chap­ter 1

William_MacAskill16 Aug 2022 18:31 UTC
33 points
5 comments18 min readEA link
(drive.google.com)

EA crit­i­cism con­test: Why I am not an effec­tive altruist

ErikHoel16 Aug 2022 17:16 UTC
13 points
23 comments2 min readEA link
(erikhoel.substack.com)

Against pop­u­la­tion ethics

jasoncrawford16 Aug 2022 5:21 UTC
7 points
21 comments3 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Altru­ism is sys­tems change, so why isn’t EA? Con­struc­tive crit­i­cism.

LB15 Aug 2022 19:18 UTC
3 points
4 comments22 min readEA link

New Cause: Ra­dio Ads Against Cousin Mar­riage in LMIC

Jackson Wagner15 Aug 2022 17:36 UTC
27 points
4 comments7 min readEA link

Pri­ori­tiz­ing x-risks may re­quire car­ing about fu­ture people

elifland14 Aug 2022 0:55 UTC
182 points
38 comments6 min readEA link
(www.foxy-scout.com)

We’re re­ally bad at guess­ing the future

Benj Azose13 Aug 2022 9:11 UTC
20 points
2 comments6 min readEA link

Com­mon-sense cases where “hy­po­thet­i­cal fu­ture peo­ple” matter

tlevin12 Aug 2022 14:05 UTC
107 points
21 comments4 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

Will longter­mists self-efface

Noah Scales12 Aug 2022 2:32 UTC
−7 points
23 comments6 min readEA link

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

Hmash9 Aug 2022 22:09 UTC
8 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

Free-Rang­ing Dog Welfare in In­dia as a Cause Area

Akash Kulgod8 Aug 2022 14:53 UTC
13 points
5 comments8 min readEA link

The Pos­si­bil­ity of Microor­ganism Suffering

Elias Au-Yeung7 Aug 2022 6:02 UTC
48 points
5 comments25 min readEA link

The Pos­si­bil­ity of Microor­ganism Suffering

Elias Au-Yeung7 Aug 2022 6:02 UTC
48 points
5 comments25 min readEA link

The re­pug­nant con­clu­sion is not a prob­lem for the to­tal view

Luca Stocco6 Aug 2022 14:38 UTC
30 points
11 comments7 min readEA link

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

Per Ivar Friborg5 Aug 2022 14:36 UTC
50 points
4 comments7 min readEA link

EA is In­suffi­ciently Value Neu­tral in Practice

Gordon Seidoh Worley4 Aug 2022 20:00 UTC
−3 points
13 comments4 min readEA link

Longter­mism, risk, and extinction

Richard Pettigrew4 Aug 2022 15:25 UTC
63 points
12 comments41 min readEA link

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

Transient Altruist4 Aug 2022 14:29 UTC
30 points
82 comments1 min readEA link

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

Jack R3 Aug 2022 22:47 UTC
71 points
12 comments3 min readEA link

Mo­ral Progress Read­ing List

Luis Mota Freitas2 Aug 2022 19:32 UTC
32 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Be­ware eth­i­cal sys­tems with­out re­pug­nant conclusions

Ezra Newman2 Aug 2022 16:47 UTC
12 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Pop­u­la­tion Ethics Without Ax­iol­ogy: A Framework

Lukas_Gloor2 Aug 2022 15:59 UTC
72 points
11 comments26 min readEA link

Mo­ral strate­gies at differ­ent ca­pa­bil­ity levels

richard_ngo27 Jul 2022 20:20 UTC
24 points
1 comment5 min readEA link
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

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

Ben Yeoh27 Jul 2022 19:51 UTC
35 points
1 comment9 min readEA link

Mus­lims for Effec­tive Altruism

Ahmed Ghoor27 Jul 2022 16:54 UTC
238 points
18 comments5 min readEA link

How moral progress hap­pens: the de­cline of foot­bind­ing as a case study

rosehadshar26 Jul 2022 9:18 UTC
103 points
10 comments13 min readEA link

How moral progress hap­pens: the de­cline of foot­bind­ing as a case study

rosehadshar26 Jul 2022 9:18 UTC
103 points
10 comments13 min readEA link

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

George Stiffman22 Jul 2022 18:14 UTC
21 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

A Con­ver­sa­tion with Daniel Kahneman

Barry Grimes22 Jul 2022 14:29 UTC
29 points
0 comments14 min readEA link

Rea­son is meant to serve the Will

Daniel Rau22 Jul 2022 7:23 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

A “Solip­sis­tic” Repug­nant Conclusion

Ramiro21 Jul 2022 16:06 UTC
13 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

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

Global Priorities Institute21 Jul 2022 15:23 UTC
43 points
7 comments7 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Cere­bral organoids

Forumite20 Jul 2022 20:12 UTC
17 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Over­think­ing “Only Be a Story”

Mica White17 Jul 2022 22:53 UTC
6 points
0 comments4 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 F16 Jul 2022 19:05 UTC
21 points
0 comments25 min readEA link

De­sire the­o­ries of welfare and non­hu­man animals

MichaelStJules16 Jul 2022 18:52 UTC
20 points
5 comments4 min readEA link

Why did I mi­s­un­der­stand util­i­tar­i­anism so badly?

Eleni_A16 Jul 2022 16:36 UTC
18 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

Why did I mi­s­un­der­stand util­i­tar­i­anism so badly?

Eleni_A16 Jul 2022 16:36 UTC
18 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

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

tobiasleenaert16 Jul 2022 15:07 UTC
67 points
47 comments1 min readEA link

A philo­soph­i­cal re­view of Open Philan­thropy’s Cause Pri­ori­ti­sa­tion Framework

MichaelPlant15 Jul 2022 8:21 UTC
155 points
11 comments25 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

A philo­soph­i­cal re­view of Open Philan­thropy’s Cause Pri­ori­ti­sa­tion Framework

MichaelPlant15 Jul 2022 8:21 UTC
155 points
11 comments25 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

Why I’m skep­ti­cal of moral cir­cle ex­pan­sion as a cause area

Question Mark14 Jul 2022 20:29 UTC
18 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

Why I’m skep­ti­cal of moral cir­cle ex­pan­sion as a cause area

Question Mark14 Jul 2022 20:29 UTC
18 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

Talk­ing EA to my philos­o­phy friends

Eleni_A14 Jul 2022 8:48 UTC
11 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

Mak­ing de­ci­sions us­ing mul­ti­ple worldviews

richard_ngo13 Jul 2022 19:15 UTC
43 points
0 comments11 min readEA link

[Question] Ex­er­cise for ‘Rad­i­cal Em­pa­thy’

EA Handbook12 Jul 2022 18:29 UTC
8 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Ex­er­cise for ‘Rad­i­cal Em­pa­thy’

EA Handbook12 Jul 2022 18:29 UTC
8 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

AI ethics: the case for in­clud­ing an­i­mals (my first pub­lished pa­per, Peter Singer’s first on AI)

Fai12 Jul 2022 4:14 UTC
78 points
5 comments1 min readEA link
(link.springer.com)

EA for dumb peo­ple?

Olivia Addy11 Jul 2022 10:46 UTC
471 points
160 comments2 min readEA link

EA for dumb peo­ple?

Olivia Addy11 Jul 2022 10:46 UTC
471 points
160 comments2 min readEA link

Meat Externalities

Richard Y Chappell11 Jul 2022 3:23 UTC
80 points
12 comments2 min readEA link
(rychappell.substack.com)

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

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

Is my blog too provoca­tive for a group or­ga­nizer?

Ariel Pontes10 Jul 2022 13:51 UTC
22 points
4 comments4 min readEA link

Wheel­ing and deal­ing: An in­ter­nal bar­gain­ing ap­proach to moral uncertainty

MichaelPlant10 Jul 2022 12:04 UTC
56 points
18 comments22 min readEA link

Per­son-af­fect­ing in­tu­itions can of­ten be money pumped

Rohin Shah7 Jul 2022 12:23 UTC
92 points
69 comments3 min readEA link

Ques­tion­ing the Value of Ex­tinc­tion Risk Reduction

Red Team 87 Jul 2022 4:44 UTC
61 points
9 comments27 min readEA link

More to ex­plore on ‘Rad­i­cal Em­pa­thy’

EA Handbook4 Jul 2022 23:00 UTC
9 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

More to ex­plore on ‘Rad­i­cal Em­pa­thy’

EA Handbook4 Jul 2022 23:00 UTC
9 points
0 comments2 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

Mo­ral weights for var­i­ous species and distributions

Vasco Grilo3 Jul 2022 18:19 UTC
15 points
10 comments3 min readEA link

The Fu­ture Might Not Be So Great

Jacy30 Jun 2022 13:01 UTC
140 points
118 comments32 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

7 es­says on Build­ing a Bet­ter Future

Jamie_Harris24 Jun 2022 14:28 UTC
21 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Marginal Cases, On Trial

Devin Kalish22 Jun 2022 20:06 UTC
18 points
0 comments21 min readEA link
(www.thinkingmuchbetter.com)

His­tory of the the­ory of well-being

davidhartsough22 Jun 2022 8:17 UTC
23 points
8 comments23 min readEA link

[Question] Mo­ral trades for tax deductibility

Oscar Delaney21 Jun 2022 23:39 UTC
5 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

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

james20 Jun 2022 21:34 UTC
29 points
4 comments20 min readEA link

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

kristin.h20 Jun 2022 2:20 UTC
2 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Ap­ply to join SHELTER Week­end this August

Joel Becker15 Jun 2022 14:21 UTC
108 points
19 comments2 min readEA link

Steer­ing AI to care for an­i­mals, and soon

Andrew Critch14 Jun 2022 1:13 UTC
221 points
37 comments1 min readEA link

Steer­ing AI to care for an­i­mals, and soon

Andrew Critch14 Jun 2022 1:13 UTC
221 points
37 comments1 min readEA link

You Don’t Need To Jus­tify Everything

ThomasW12 Jun 2022 18:36 UTC
139 points
11 comments3 min readEA link

How to dis­solve moral clue­less­ness about donat­ing mosquito nets

ben.smith8 Jun 2022 7:12 UTC
25 points
8 comments12 min readEA link

The Strange Shortage of Mo­ral Optimizers

Richard Y Chappell7 Jun 2022 15:23 UTC
89 points
26 comments5 min readEA link
(rychappell.substack.com)

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

Global Priorities Institute7 Jun 2022 13:14 UTC
25 points
6 comments6 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

LW4EA: Sab­bath hard and go home

Jeremy7 Jun 2022 2:46 UTC
10 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Socrates Café: A Differ­ent Ap­proach to Dis­cus­sion

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

LW4EA: How to Be Happy

Jeremy31 May 2022 22:42 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

On­line Work­ing /​ Com­mu­nity Meetup for the Abo­li­tion of Suffering

Ruth_Fr.31 May 2022 9:16 UTC
7 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

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

John Bridge30 May 2022 9:48 UTC
4 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing spirit hazards

brb24327 May 2022 22:16 UTC
9 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

A Prob­lem with Motivation

James Aitchison25 May 2022 8:35 UTC
9 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Peace­ful­ness, non­vi­o­lence, and ex­pe­ri­en­tial­ist minimalism

Teo Ajantaival23 May 2022 19:17 UTC
61 points
14 comments28 min readEA link

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

wuschel23 May 2022 11:49 UTC
48 points
39 comments2 min readEA link

Level­ing-up Impartiality

Richard Y Chappell19 May 2022 0:32 UTC
36 points
2 comments2 min readEA link
(rychappell.substack.com)

Level­ing-up Impartiality

Richard Y Chappell19 May 2022 0:32 UTC
36 points
2 comments2 min readEA link
(rychappell.substack.com)

Why should I care about in­sects?

JamieGittins18 May 2022 19:37 UTC
87 points
19 comments5 min readEA link

Why should I care about in­sects?

JamieGittins18 May 2022 19:37 UTC
87 points
19 comments5 min readEA link

On­line Work­ing /​ Com­mu­nity Meetup for the Abo­li­tion of Suffering

Ruth_Fr.18 May 2022 12:47 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

My Morality

UtilityMonster15 May 2022 16:35 UTC
11 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

Is Our Uni­verse A New­comb’s Para­dox Si­mu­la­tion?

Jordan Arel15 May 2022 7:28 UTC
16 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

Rab­bits, robots and resurrection

Patrick Wilson10 May 2022 15:00 UTC
9 points
0 comments15 min readEA link

New sub­stack on util­i­tar­ian ethics: Good Thoughts

Richard Y Chappell9 May 2022 16:00 UTC
50 points
9 comments1 min readEA link
(rychappell.substack.com)

Why do you care?

anonymous18 May 2022 10:44 UTC
12 points
6 comments4 min readEA link

What We Owe the Past

Austin5 May 2022 12:06 UTC
56 points
19 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] An­i­mal Welfare: Re­viv­ing Ex­tinct (hu­man) in­ter­me­di­ate species?

Franziska Fischer5 May 2022 10:16 UTC
15 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

List of lists of EA-re­lated open philos­o­phy re­search questions

ChanaMessinger3 May 2022 16:14 UTC
17 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

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

Global Priorities Institute29 Apr 2022 15:54 UTC
21 points
1 comment5 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

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

Global Priorities Institute29 Apr 2022 15:52 UTC
43 points
27 comments5 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

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

Holly_Elmore28 Apr 2022 4:51 UTC
61 points
11 comments5 min readEA link

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

Jordan Arel28 Apr 2022 2:57 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Th­e­sis Sum­mary and Open Ques­tions: Nor­ma­tive Uncer­tainty and In­for­ma­tion Value

rileyharris27 Apr 2022 8:46 UTC
31 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

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

Marek Veneny27 Apr 2022 8:24 UTC
1 point
4 comments1 min readEA link

LW4EA: Philo­soph­i­cal Landmines

Jeremy26 Apr 2022 2:53 UTC
9 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Is the rea­son­ing of the Repug­nant Con­clu­sion valid?

Adithya21 Apr 2022 23:33 UTC
3 points
16 comments6 min readEA link

[Question] What makes a state­ment a nor­ma­tive state­ment?

Vynn19 Apr 2022 8:41 UTC
2 points
17 comments1 min readEA link

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

Vanessa19 Apr 2022 6:49 UTC
53 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

Stupid Rea­sons to Have More Kids

johnburidan17 Apr 2022 20:00 UTC
11 points
12 comments4 min readEA link

What is a neu­tral life like?

Jack Malde16 Apr 2022 15:57 UTC
42 points
10 comments6 min readEA link

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

Vasco Grilo15 Apr 2022 17:22 UTC
6 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

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

brb24311 Apr 2022 17:52 UTC
4 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Cru­cial con­sid­er­a­tions in the field of Wild An­i­mal Welfare (WAW)

Holly_Elmore10 Apr 2022 19:43 UTC
63 points
10 comments3 min readEA link

Against the “smarts fetish”

Magnus Vinding8 Apr 2022 7:54 UTC
137 points
37 comments7 min readEA link

Against the “smarts fetish”

Magnus Vinding8 Apr 2022 7:54 UTC
137 points
37 comments7 min readEA link

Ideal gov­er­nance (for com­pa­nies, coun­tries and more)

Holden Karnofsky7 Apr 2022 16:54 UTC
80 points
19 comments14 min readEA link

Prac­ti­cal ethics re­quires meta­phys­i­cal Free Will

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

“Long-Ter­mism” vs. “Ex­is­ten­tial Risk”

Scott Alexander6 Apr 2022 21:41 UTC
512 points
81 comments3 min readEA link

Avoid­ing Mo­ral Fads?

Davis_Kingsley3 Apr 2022 21:35 UTC
25 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

Mo­ral Anti-Real­ism: In­tro­duc­tion & Summary

Lukas_Gloor2 Apr 2022 14:32 UTC
49 points
1 comment7 min readEA link

8 pos­si­ble high-level goals for work on nu­clear risk

MichaelA29 Mar 2022 6:30 UTC
46 points
4 comments13 min readEA link

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

John Bridge27 Mar 2022 20:41 UTC
28 points
42 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] What is agency?

Vynn27 Mar 2022 19:28 UTC
0 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Effec­tive­ness is a Con­junc­tion of Multipliers

Thomas Kwa25 Mar 2022 18:44 UTC
244 points
34 comments3 min readEA link

Data Publi­ca­tion for the 2021 Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence, Mo­ral­ity, and Sen­tience (AIMS) Sur­vey

Janet Pauketat24 Mar 2022 15:43 UTC
21 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

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

Joe_Carlsmith22 Mar 2022 3:05 UTC
8 points
0 comments27 min readEA link

De­sir­able? AI qualities

brb24321 Mar 2022 22:05 UTC
7 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Ca­reer Ad­vice: Philos­o­phy + Pro­gram­ming → AI Safety

tcelferact18 Mar 2022 15:09 UTC
30 points
11 comments2 min readEA link

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

Joe_Carlsmith18 Mar 2022 8:28 UTC
7 points
2 comments16 min readEA link

Book re­view of “Mengzi”

anonymous616 Mar 2022 22:58 UTC
17 points
0 comments12 min readEA link

On ex­pected util­ity, part 1: Skyscrap­ers and madmen

Joe_Carlsmith16 Mar 2022 21:54 UTC
21 points
1 comment12 min readEA link

A Ten­ta­tive Solu­tion To In­finite Ethics

Omnizoid15 Mar 2022 18:25 UTC
6 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Wide­spread val­ues brainstorming

brb24315 Mar 2022 12:45 UTC
9 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Bu­gout Bags for Disasters

Fin8 Mar 2022 17:03 UTC
10 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

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

Magnus Vinding3 Mar 2022 11:31 UTC
90 points
9 comments5 min readEA link

CLR’s An­nual Re­port 2021

stefan.torges26 Feb 2022 12:47 UTC
79 points
0 comments12 min readEA link

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

Gus Docker22 Feb 2022 15:04 UTC
22 points
0 comments46 min readEA link
(www.utilitarianpodcast.com)

Th­e­ses on Sleep

guzey11 Feb 2022 18:05 UTC
51 points
22 comments35 min readEA link

Welfare Es­ti­ma­tion 102: Welfare is a Myth

Richard Bruns10 Feb 2022 16:44 UTC
12 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

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

kiwi0fruit7 Feb 2022 17:27 UTC
0 points
1 comment1 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

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

Lukas_Gloor3 Feb 2022 11:40 UTC
48 points
17 comments34 min readEA link

Neil Sin­hab­abu on metaethics and world gov­ern­ment for re­duc­ing ex­is­ten­tial risk

Gus Docker2 Feb 2022 20:23 UTC
7 points
0 comments85 min readEA link
(www.utilitarianpodcast.com)

Other-cen­tered ethics and Harsanyi’s Ag­gre­ga­tion Theorem

Holden Karnofsky2 Feb 2022 3:21 UTC
58 points
11 comments70 min readEA link

On in­finite ethics

Joe_Carlsmith31 Jan 2022 7:17 UTC
94 points
29 comments48 min readEA link

Up­date on GPI’s ac­tivi­ties and plans for 2022

Global Priorities Institute28 Jan 2022 15:39 UTC
36 points
5 comments12 min readEA link

Dis­man­tling He­donism-in­spired Mo­ral Realism

Lukas_Gloor27 Jan 2022 17:06 UTC
39 points
21 comments16 min readEA link

Mo­ral Uncer­tainty and Mo­ral Real­ism Are in Tension

Lukas_Gloor25 Jan 2022 11:07 UTC
39 points
4 comments12 min readEA link

New Publi­ca­tion: Effec­tive Altru­ism and Reli­gion

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

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

Esmi23 Jan 2022 18:15 UTC
2 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

The ig­no­rance of nor­ma­tive re­al­ism bot

Joe_Carlsmith18 Jan 2022 5:18 UTC
25 points
1 comment35 min readEA link

Mo­ral­ity and con­strained max­i­miza­tion, part 2

Joe_Carlsmith12 Jan 2022 1:49 UTC
9 points
0 comments25 min readEA link

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

brb24310 Jan 2022 19:38 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing Effec­tive Self-Help

Ben Williamson6 Jan 2022 13:11 UTC
111 points
18 comments22 min readEA link

An­i­mal welfare EA and per­sonal dietary options

RobBensinger5 Jan 2022 18:53 UTC
17 points
10 comments3 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

An Is­sue with the Repug­nant Conclusion

matthewp31 Dec 2021 12:48 UTC
−1 points
6 comments2 min readEA link

Democratis­ing Risk—or how EA deals with critics

CarlaZoeC28 Dec 2021 15:05 UTC
276 points
311 comments4 min readEA link

Rea­sons and Per­sons: Watch the­o­ries eat themselves

Aaron Gertler25 Dec 2021 3:53 UTC
63 points
7 comments15 min readEA link
(dynomight.net)

Free Guy, a rom-com on the moral pa­tient­hood of digi­tal sentience

mic23 Dec 2021 7:47 UTC
25 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Free Guy, a rom-com on the moral pa­tient­hood of digi­tal sentience

mic23 Dec 2021 7:47 UTC
25 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Mo­ral­ity and con­strained max­i­miza­tion, part 1

Joe_Carlsmith22 Dec 2021 8:53 UTC
13 points
0 comments11 min readEA link

Stress—effec­tive ways to re­duce it

Ben Williamson21 Dec 2021 14:50 UTC
78 points
22 comments12 min readEA link

Do sour grapes ap­ply to moral­ity?

Nikola16 Dec 2021 18:00 UTC
21 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

Do sour grapes ap­ply to moral­ity?

Nikola16 Dec 2021 18:00 UTC
21 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

Against Nega­tive Utilitarianism

Omnizoid14 Dec 2021 20:17 UTC
1 point
58 comments4 min readEA link

Re­sponse to Re­cent Crit­i­cisms of Longtermism

ab13 Dec 2021 13:36 UTC
249 points
31 comments28 min readEA link

A Gen­tle In­tro­duc­tion to Long-Term Thinking

Jack Cunningham8 Dec 2021 3:21 UTC
5 points
1 comment11 min readEA link

Might stop­ping mis­car­riages be a very im­por­tant cause area?

SaraAzubuike5 Dec 2021 17:18 UTC
12 points
13 comments2 min readEA link

The Ter­minol­ogy of Ar­tifi­cial Sentience

Janet Pauketat28 Nov 2021 7:52 UTC
29 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

Sen­tience In­sti­tute 2021 End of Year Summary

Ali26 Nov 2021 14:40 UTC
66 points
5 comments6 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

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

kirchner.jan23 Nov 2021 10:47 UTC
16 points
5 comments14 min readEA link
(universalprior.substack.com)

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

Gus Docker21 Nov 2021 15:29 UTC
26 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.utilitarianpodcast.com)

Why Save The Drown­ing Child: Ethics Vs Theory

Raymond D16 Nov 2021 19:06 UTC
2 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

Can we in­fluence the val­ues of our de­scen­dants?

Jaime Sevilla16 Nov 2021 10:36 UTC
63 points
17 comments6 min readEA link

Can we in­fluence the val­ues of our de­scen­dants?

Jaime Sevilla16 Nov 2021 10:36 UTC
63 points
17 comments6 min readEA link

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

Barry Grimes16 Nov 2021 9:17 UTC
30 points
0 comments11 min readEA link

Sleep: effec­tive ways to im­prove it

Ben Williamson15 Nov 2021 14:42 UTC
133 points
61 comments12 min readEA link

Min­i­mal­ist ax­iolo­gies and pos­i­tive lives

Teo Ajantaival13 Nov 2021 10:57 UTC
54 points
12 comments25 min readEA link

Effec­tive strate­gies for chang­ing pub­lic opinion: A liter­a­ture review

Jamie_Harris9 Nov 2021 14:09 UTC
81 points
2 comments37 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

Effec­tive strate­gies for chang­ing pub­lic opinion: A liter­a­ture review

Jamie_Harris9 Nov 2021 14:09 UTC
81 points
2 comments37 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

Weighted wellbe­ing pop­u­la­tion theory

brb2433 Nov 2021 3:01 UTC
2 points
2 comments6 min readEA link

2020 PhilPapers Sur­vey Results

RobBensinger2 Nov 2021 5:06 UTC
40 points
0 comments12 min readEA link

[Creative Writ­ing Con­test] Priorities

Contra Rien30 Oct 2021 4:53 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Creative Writ­ing Con­test] Priorities

Contra Rien30 Oct 2021 4:53 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link

Stan­ley the Uncer­tain [Creative Writ­ing Con­test]

Akash28 Oct 2021 20:12 UTC
33 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

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

Andrea Sauchelli26 Oct 2021 9:25 UTC
5 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

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

Andrea Sauchelli26 Oct 2021 9:25 UTC
5 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

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

Global Priorities Institute22 Oct 2021 9:57 UTC
4 points
3 comments3 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Seek­ing feed­back on new EA-al­igned eco­nomics paper

jh21 Oct 2021 21:19 UTC
35 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

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

Gus Docker21 Oct 2021 15:17 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.utilitarianpodcast.com)

Pri­ori­ti­za­tion Ques­tions for Ar­tifi­cial Sentience

Jamie_Harris18 Oct 2021 14:07 UTC
26 points
2 comments8 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

Pri­ori­ti­za­tion Ques­tions for Ar­tifi­cial Sentience

Jamie_Harris18 Oct 2021 14:07 UTC
26 points
2 comments8 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

Suffer­ing-Fo­cused Ethics (SFE) FAQ

EdisonY16 Oct 2021 11:33 UTC
77 points
22 comments25 min readEA link

A prac­ti­cal guide to long-term plan­ning – and sug­ges­tions for longtermism

weeatquince10 Oct 2021 15:37 UTC
138 points
13 comments25 min readEA link

[Question] Has any­one wrote some­thing us­ing moral clue­less­ness to “de­bunk” anti-con­se­quen­tial­ist thought ex­per­i­ments?

capybaralet9 Oct 2021 13:09 UTC
3 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Carl Shul­man on the com­mon-sense case for ex­is­ten­tial risk work and its prac­ti­cal implications

80000_Hours8 Oct 2021 13:43 UTC
41 points
2 comments150 min readEA link

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

Joe_Carlsmith1 Oct 2021 7:00 UTC
8 points
0 comments22 min readEA link

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

Davidmanheim26 Sep 2021 7:05 UTC
12 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

The prob­lem of ar­tifi­cial suffering

mlsbt24 Sep 2021 14:43 UTC
49 points
3 comments9 min readEA link

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

Mahendra Prasad24 Sep 2021 3:01 UTC
1 point
6 comments1 min readEA link

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

Mahendra Prasad24 Sep 2021 3:01 UTC
1 point
6 comments1 min readEA link

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

Mahendra Prasad24 Sep 2021 2:54 UTC
2 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Why I am prob­a­bly not a longtermist

Denise_Melchin23 Sep 2021 17:24 UTC
216 points
46 comments8 min readEA link

[Question] Philos­o­phy PhD Ap­pli­ca­tion: Ad­vice on Writ­ten Submission

tcelferact19 Sep 2021 16:41 UTC
4 points
6 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Philos­o­phy PhD Ap­pli­ca­tion: Ad­vice on Writ­ten Submission

tcelferact19 Sep 2021 16:41 UTC
4 points
6 comments2 min readEA link

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

peterhartree19 Sep 2021 8:44 UTC
44 points
3 comments25 min readEA link

The Me­taethics and Nor­ma­tive Ethics of AGI Value Align­ment: Many Ques­tions, Some Implications

Eleos Arete Citrini15 Sep 2021 19:05 UTC
25 points
0 comments8 min readEA link

(Video) Why Ve­gans Are So Annoying

cryptopsyfan694206 Sep 2021 4:11 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Ne­glected bio­di­ver­sity pro­tec­tion by EA.

Danny Forest4 Sep 2021 8:19 UTC
11 points
12 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Are many EAs philo­soph­i­cal prag­ma­tists?

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

Philos­o­phy Web—Pro­ject Pro­posal

Ben Evans24 Aug 2021 15:37 UTC
9 points
2 comments3 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?

spreadlove568323 Aug 2021 19:53 UTC
19 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

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

DM20 Aug 2021 14:38 UTC
22 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

Alexan­der Berger on im­prov­ing global health and wellbe­ing in clear and di­rect ways

80000_Hours12 Aug 2021 15:46 UTC
42 points
1 comment139 min readEA link

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

Global Priorities Institute9 Aug 2021 16:57 UTC
46 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Sur­vey-Pro­posal: Cause-Area Switching

QubitSwarm996 Aug 2021 2:23 UTC
18 points
1 comment9 min readEA link

Virtues for Real-World Utilitarians

Stefan_Schubert5 Aug 2021 22:56 UTC
152 points
7 comments1 min readEA link
(psyarxiv.com)

Virtues for Real-World Utilitarians

Stefan_Schubert5 Aug 2021 22:56 UTC
152 points
7 comments1 min readEA link
(psyarxiv.com)

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

Ramiro1 Aug 2021 14:04 UTC
19 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

Cal­ibra­tion dilem­mas in the ethics of distribution

Global Priorities Institute1 Aug 2021 13:12 UTC
8 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Towards a longter­mist frame­work for eval­u­at­ing democ­racy-re­lated interventions

Tom Barnes28 Jul 2021 13:23 UTC
96 points
5 comments30 min readEA link

Towards a longter­mist frame­work for eval­u­at­ing democ­racy-re­lated interventions

Tom Barnes28 Jul 2021 13:23 UTC
96 points
5 comments30 min readEA link

[3-hour pod­cast]: Joseph Car­l­smith on longter­mism, utopia, the com­pu­ta­tional power of the brain, meta-ethics, illu­sion­ism and meditation

Gus Docker27 Jul 2021 13:18 UTC
34 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Mo­gensen & MacAskill, ‘The paral­y­sis ar­gu­ment’

Pablo19 Jul 2021 14:04 UTC
15 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(quod.lib.umich.edu)

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

peterhartree18 Jul 2021 18:58 UTC
23 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

[Question] Is im­per­sonal benev­olence a virtue?

Xing Shi Cai18 Jul 2021 8:24 UTC
8 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Is im­per­sonal benev­olence a virtue?

Xing Shi Cai18 Jul 2021 8:24 UTC
8 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

Nar­ra­tion: Re­duc­ing long-term risks from malev­olent actors

D0TheMath15 Jul 2021 16:26 UTC
23 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(anchor.fm)

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

The_Lord's_Servant_28010 Jul 2021 22:50 UTC
2 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Nar­ra­tion: “Against neu­tral­ity about cre­at­ing happy lives”

D0TheMath10 Jul 2021 19:13 UTC
12 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(anchor.fm)

Les­sons from Strangers Drown­ing by Larissa MacFarquhar

Xing Shi Cai9 Jul 2021 19:35 UTC
13 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

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

Stijn6 Jul 2021 13:17 UTC
7 points
9 comments16 min readEA link

[Question] What should we call the other prob­lem of clue­less­ness?

Owen Cotton-Barratt3 Jul 2021 17:10 UTC
52 points
22 comments1 min readEA link

A do-gooder’s safari

Owen Cotton-Barratt3 Jul 2021 11:03 UTC
168 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

Does Mo­ral Philos­o­phy Drive Mo­ral Progress?

AppliedDivinityStudies2 Jul 2021 21:22 UTC
38 points
4 comments4 min readEA link

A longter­mist cri­tique of “The ex­pected value of ex­tinc­tion risk re­duc­tion is pos­i­tive”

Anthony DiGiovanni1 Jul 2021 21:01 UTC
125 points
10 comments32 min readEA link

A Para­dox for Tiny Prob­a­bil­ities and Enor­mous Values

Global Priorities Institute1 Jul 2021 7:00 UTC
5 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Key Les­sons From So­cial Move­ment History

Jamie_Harris30 Jun 2021 17:05 UTC
122 points
24 comments11 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

Key Les­sons From So­cial Move­ment History

Jamie_Harris30 Jun 2021 17:05 UTC
122 points
24 comments11 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

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

james29 Jun 2021 9:59 UTC
91 points
7 comments5 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

The un­think­able ur­gency of suffering

Aaron Bergman26 Jun 2021 0:14 UTC
53 points
9 comments6 min readEA link
(aaronbergman.substack.com)

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

BrownHairedEevee25 Jun 2021 15:39 UTC
12 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

On the limits of ideal­ized values

Joe_Carlsmith22 Jun 2021 2:00 UTC
80 points
9 comments36 min readEA link

The case for strong longter­mism—June 2021 update

Jack Malde21 Jun 2021 21:30 UTC
64 points
12 comments3 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

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

Writer14 Jun 2021 11:43 UTC
23 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

Kar­da­shev for Kindness

Mary Stowers11 Jun 2021 22:22 UTC
30 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

Hu­man­i­ties Re­search Ideas for Longtermists

Lizka9 Jun 2021 4:39 UTC
151 points
13 comments13 min readEA link

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

AppliedDivinityStudies4 Jun 2021 21:08 UTC
35 points
19 comments3 min readEA link

Con­struc­tive Crit­i­cism of Mo­ral Uncer­tainty (book)

mariushobbhahn4 Jun 2021 6:04 UTC
28 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

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

jasoncrawford2 Jun 2021 18:47 UTC
119 points
37 comments3 min readEA link

Pos­i­tive roles of life and ex­pe­rience in suffer­ing-fo­cused ethics

Teo Ajantaival22 May 2021 16:05 UTC
48 points
1 comment24 min readEA link

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

wuschel16 May 2021 13:47 UTC
9 points
12 comments5 min readEA link

The Im­pos­si­bil­ity of a Satis­fac­tory Pop­u­la­tion Prospect Axiology

EJT12 May 2021 15:35 UTC
36 points
12 comments1 min readEA link
(link.springer.com)

Epistemic Trade: A quick proof sketch with one example

Linch11 May 2021 9:05 UTC
19 points
2 comments8 min readEA link

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

Pablo6 May 2021 10:39 UTC
26 points
6 comments1 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

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

80000_Hours5 May 2021 19:38 UTC
7 points
0 comments114 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

Five Books of Peter Singer which Changed My Life

Xing Shi Cai4 May 2021 8:07 UTC
23 points
4 comments5 min readEA link

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

MichaelA3 May 2021 14:22 UTC
39 points
33 comments2 min readEA link

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

MichaelA2 May 2021 18:00 UTC
30 points
21 comments2 min readEA link

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

Global Priorities Institute30 Apr 2021 13:26 UTC
4 points
0 comments2 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

Nat­u­ral­ism and AI alignment

Michele Campolo24 Apr 2021 16:20 UTC
17 points
3 comments8 min readEA link

Mo­ral plu­ral­ism and longter­mism | Sunyshore

BrownHairedEevee17 Apr 2021 0:14 UTC
26 points
0 comments6 min readEA link
(sunyshore.substack.com)

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

deanspears14 Apr 2021 0:48 UTC
114 points
16 comments1 min readEA link
(deanspears.medium.com)

[Question] Can the moral cir­cle be ex­panded through eco­nomic se­cu­rity and/​or poli­ti­cal trust?

Jan-Willem13 Apr 2021 7:59 UTC
9 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

[Question] Can the moral cir­cle be ex­panded through eco­nomic se­cu­rity and/​or poli­ti­cal trust?

Jan-Willem13 Apr 2021 7:59 UTC
9 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

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

MichaelA13 Apr 2021 5:50 UTC
55 points
28 comments2 min readEA link

Ex­plor­ing a Log­a­r­ith­mic Tol­er­ance of Suffering

David Reber12 Apr 2021 1:39 UTC
10 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

On the longter­mist case for work­ing on farmed an­i­mals [Uncer­tain­ties & re­search ideas]

MichaelA11 Apr 2021 6:49 UTC
78 points
12 comments8 min readEA link

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

Venkatesh6 Apr 2021 16:07 UTC
26 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

SoGive’s moral weights—please take part!

Sanjay5 Apr 2021 22:47 UTC
26 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Spears & Bu­dolf­son, ‘Repug­nant con­clu­sions’

Pablo4 Apr 2021 16:09 UTC
60 points
14 comments1 min readEA link
(doi.org)

The Epistemic Challenge to Longter­mism (Tarsney, 2020)

MichaelA4 Apr 2021 3:09 UTC
79 points
27 comments1 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

So­cial Move­ment Les­sons from the Fair Trade Movement

Jamie_Harris2 Apr 2021 10:51 UTC
44 points
0 comments42 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

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

RobBensinger30 Mar 2021 3:06 UTC
23 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

The im­por­tance of how you weigh it

Joe_Carlsmith29 Mar 2021 4:58 UTC
42 points
2 comments12 min readEA link

For­mal­is­ing the “Wash­ing Out Hy­poth­e­sis”

dwebb25 Mar 2021 11:40 UTC
101 points
27 comments12 min readEA link

On fu­ture peo­ple, look­ing back at 21st cen­tury longtermism

Joe_Carlsmith22 Mar 2021 8:21 UTC
102 points
13 comments12 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)

Toby Ord at EA Global: Reconnect

EA Global20 Mar 2021 7:00 UTC
11 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

[Question] Why do EAs have chil­dren?

Luke Freeman15 Mar 2021 3:17 UTC
31 points
24 comments1 min readEA link

Against neu­tral­ity about cre­at­ing happy lives

Joe_Carlsmith15 Mar 2021 1:54 UTC
95 points
37 comments11 min readEA link

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

Milan_Griffes14 Mar 2021 5:05 UTC
9 points
80 comments1 min readEA link

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

Ben_West12 Mar 2021 3:51 UTC
44 points
11 comments5 min readEA link

Pos­si­ble mis­con­cep­tions about (strong) longtermism

Jack Malde9 Mar 2021 17:58 UTC
90 points
43 comments19 min readEA link

Care and demandingness

Joe_Carlsmith8 Mar 2021 6:59 UTC
54 points
2 comments11 min readEA link

What is the ar­gu­ment against a Thanos-ing all hu­man­ity to save the lives of other sen­tient be­ings?

somethoughts7 Mar 2021 8:02 UTC
0 points
11 comments3 min readEA link

What is the ar­gu­ment against a Thanos-ing all hu­man­ity to save the lives of other sen­tient be­ings?

somethoughts7 Mar 2021 8:02 UTC
0 points
11 comments3 min readEA link

A full syl­labus on longtermism

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

The Im­por­tance of Ar­tifi­cial Sentience

Jamie_Harris3 Mar 2021 17:17 UTC
70 points
10 comments12 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

The Im­por­tance of Ar­tifi­cial Sentience

Jamie_Harris3 Mar 2021 17:17 UTC
70 points
10 comments12 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

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

acristia28 Feb 2021 19:35 UTC
9 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Solv­ing the moral clue­less­ness prob­lem with Bayesian joint prob­a­bil­ity distributions

ben.smith28 Feb 2021 9:17 UTC
9 points
13 comments4 min readEA link

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

Some EA Fo­rum Posts I’d like to write

Linch23 Feb 2021 5:27 UTC
100 points
10 comments5 min readEA link

Some EA Fo­rum Posts I’d like to write

Linch23 Feb 2021 5:27 UTC
100 points
10 comments5 min readEA link

Ex­pe­ri­en­tial­ist The­o­ries of Well-Being

andzuck19 Feb 2021 20:26 UTC
34 points
0 comments12 min readEA link

Con­tact with reality

Joe_Carlsmith15 Feb 2021 4:53 UTC
47 points
4 comments21 min readEA link

Bob Ja­cobs’s Quick takes

Bob Jacobs13 Feb 2021 19:35 UTC
3 points
19 comments1 min readEA link

Blame­wor­thi­ness for Avoid­able Psy­cholog­i­cal Harms

Cullen9 Feb 2021 2:46 UTC
38 points
13 comments9 min readEA link

Com­plex clue­less­ness as credal fragility

Gregory Lewis8 Feb 2021 16:59 UTC
62 points
50 comments23 min readEA link

Killing the ants

Joe_Carlsmith7 Feb 2021 23:16 UTC
223 points
16 comments8 min readEA link

An in­ner de­bate on risk aver­sion and sys­temic change

AndrewDoris2 Feb 2021 22:31 UTC
18 points
6 comments9 min readEA link

How can we re­duce s-risks?

Tobias_Baumann29 Jan 2021 15:46 UTC
42 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(centerforreducingsuffering.org)

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

finm28 Jan 2021 19:47 UTC
11 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(hearthisidea.com)

In­tro­duc­tion to Longtermism

finm27 Jan 2021 16:01 UTC
78 points
13 comments11 min readEA link
(effectivealtruism.org)

The Up­per Limit of Value

Davidmanheim27 Jan 2021 14:15 UTC
34 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

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

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

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

BrownHairedEevee22 Jan 2021 23:57 UTC
57 points
20 comments1 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

Global Pri­ori­ties In­sti­tute: Re­search Agenda

Aaron Gertler20 Jan 2021 20:09 UTC
22 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Hilary Greaves: The col­lec­tivist cri­tique of the EA movement

Aaron Gertler19 Jan 2021 13:18 UTC
35 points
5 comments1 min readEA link
(users.ox.ac.uk)

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

80000_Hours18 Jan 2021 8:35 UTC
14 points
1 comment125 min readEA link

Ac­tu­ally pos­si­ble: thoughts on Utopia

Joe_Carlsmith18 Jan 2021 8:27 UTC
81 points
4 comments13 min readEA link

Is EA just about pop­u­la­tion growth?

LuceAlexis17 Jan 2021 8:55 UTC
6 points
10 comments5 min readEA link

Scope-sen­si­tive ethics: cap­tur­ing the core in­tu­ition mo­ti­vat­ing utilitarianism

richard_ngo15 Jan 2021 16:22 UTC
139 points
19 comments5 min readEA link

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

Joe_Carlsmith15 Jan 2021 7:06 UTC
19 points
5 comments10 min readEA link

Shouldn’t it mat­ter to the vic­tim?

Joe_Carlsmith11 Jan 2021 7:14 UTC
22 points
1 comment15 min readEA link

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

Arden Koehler5 Jan 2021 2:18 UTC
55 points
30 comments11 min readEA link

The de­spair of nor­ma­tive re­al­ism bot

Joe_Carlsmith3 Jan 2021 22:59 UTC
34 points
3 comments18 min readEA link

Ex­pand­ing Our Com­pas­sion: More to explore

EA Handbook2 Jan 2021 1:22 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Ex­pand­ing Our Com­pas­sion: More to explore

EA Handbook2 Jan 2021 1:22 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Web of virtue the­sis [re­search note]

Owen Cotton-Barratt1 Jan 2021 16:21 UTC
56 points
1 comment9 min readEA link

Web of virtue the­sis [re­search note]

Owen Cotton-Barratt1 Jan 2021 16:21 UTC
56 points
1 comment9 min readEA link

Even Allo­ca­tion Strat­egy un­der High Model Ambiguity

MichaelStJules31 Dec 2020 9:10 UTC
15 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

Whole­hearted choices and “moral­ity as taxes”

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

Be­hav­ioral/​Cog­ni­tive Psy­chol­ogy and EA

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

In­com­pat­i­bil­ity of moral re­al­ism and time discounting

wuschel12 Dec 2020 18:47 UTC
16 points
6 comments8 min readEA link

Holism, Lack of Knowl­edge, and Transhumanism

Jung Enthusiast9 Dec 2020 2:08 UTC
−9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­tion to the Philos­o­phy of Well-Being

finm7 Dec 2020 12:32 UTC
45 points
22 comments6 min readEA link

[Link] Nor­ma­tive Im­pli­ca­tions of Re­duc­tion­ism about Per­sonal Identity

poliboni5 Dec 2020 13:54 UTC
9 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Shar­ing the World with Digi­tal Minds

Aaron Gertler1 Dec 2020 8:00 UTC
12 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.nickbostrom.com)

The Com­pa­ra­bil­ity of Sub­jec­tive Scales

MichaelPlant30 Nov 2020 16:47 UTC
79 points
9 comments4 min readEA link

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

EdoArad28 Nov 2020 7:41 UTC
14 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

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

Prof.Weird22 Nov 2020 11:37 UTC
13 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

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

EA Global21 Nov 2020 8:12 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

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

EA Global21 Nov 2020 8:12 UTC
19 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

[Question] What good are you do­ing to­day?

Prof.Weird20 Nov 2020 14:39 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Should effec­tive al­tru­ists have chil­dren?

Jeffray_Behr14 Nov 2020 23:53 UTC
19 points
5 comments10 min readEA link

some con­cerns with clas­si­cal utilitarianism

nil14 Nov 2020 9:29 UTC
31 points
17 comments19 min readEA link

Longter­mism and an­i­mal advocacy

Tobias_Baumann11 Nov 2020 17:44 UTC
96 points
8 comments4 min readEA link
(centerforreducingsuffering.org)

The Case Against Speciesism

EA Handbook9 Nov 2020 1:00 UTC
10 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(centerforreducingsuffering.org)

Ev­i­dence, clue­less­ness, and the long term—Hilary Greaves

james1 Nov 2020 17:25 UTC
121 points
83 comments19 min readEA link

Differ­ences in the In­ten­sity of Valenced Ex­pe­rience across Species

Jason Schukraft30 Oct 2020 1:13 UTC
93 points
42 comments52 min readEA link

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

throwaway85529 Oct 2020 8:15 UTC
6 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Hilary Greaves: Ev­i­dence, clue­less­ness and the long term

EA Global25 Oct 2020 5:48 UTC
8 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Ja­son Schukraft: Mo­ral stand­ing and cause pri­ori­ti­za­tion

EA Global24 Oct 2020 19:56 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

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

EA Global24 Oct 2020 19:56 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Log­i­cal Foun­da­tions of Govern­ment Policy

FCCC10 Oct 2020 16:11 UTC
5 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Timeline Utilitarianism

Bob Jacobs9 Oct 2020 20:12 UTC
15 points
11 comments2 min readEA link

New 3-hour pod­cast with An­ders Sand­berg about Grand Futures

Gus Docker6 Oct 2020 10:47 UTC
21 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Get­ting money out of poli­tics and into charity

Eric Neyman6 Oct 2020 5:28 UTC
112 points
47 comments3 min readEA link

Sor­ti­tion Model of Mo­ral Uncertainty

Bob Jacobs4 Oct 2020 20:58 UTC
33 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

Re­view and Sum­mary of ‘Mo­ral Uncer­tainty’

finm2 Oct 2020 15:41 UTC
37 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(www.finmoorhouse.com)

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

Global Priorities Institute30 Sep 2020 13:29 UTC
5 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

What ac­tu­ally is the ar­gu­ment for effec­tive al­tru­ism?

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

Life Satis­fac­tion and its Discontents

MichaelPlant25 Sep 2020 7:54 UTC
71 points
24 comments3 min readEA link

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

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

Hedg­ing against deep and moral uncertainty

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

New book: Mo­ral Uncer­tainty by MacAskill, Ord & Bykvist

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

AMA: To­bias Bau­mann, Cen­ter for Re­duc­ing Suffering

Tobias_Baumann6 Sep 2020 10:45 UTC
48 points
45 comments1 min readEA link

“Dis­ap­point­ing Fu­tures” Might Be As Im­por­tant As Ex­is­ten­tial Risks

MichaelDickens3 Sep 2020 1:15 UTC
96 points
18 comments25 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing the Le­gal Pri­ori­ties Project

jonasschuett30 Aug 2020 14:10 UTC
179 points
13 comments2 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)

The Case for Education

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

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

Jorgen_Ljones12 Aug 2020 15:06 UTC
31 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

Book Re­view: Deon­tol­ogy by Jeremy Bentham

ketchupduck12 Aug 2020 13:45 UTC
50 points
10 comments17 min readEA link

EA read­ing list: util­i­tar­i­anism and consciousness

richard_ngo7 Aug 2020 19:32 UTC
17 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Toby Ord: Selected quo­ta­tions on ex­is­ten­tial risk

Aaron Gertler6 Aug 2020 17:41 UTC
32 points
0 comments39 min readEA link
(theprecipice.com)

The world is full of wasted motion

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

The prob­lem with per­son-af­fect­ing views

Jack Malde5 Aug 2020 18:37 UTC
44 points
22 comments3 min readEA link

Ex­tinc­tion risk re­duc­tion and moral cir­cle ex­pan­sion: Spec­u­lat­ing sus­pi­cious convergence

MichaelA4 Aug 2020 11:38 UTC
12 points
4 comments6 min readEA link

My Meta-Ethics and Pos­si­ble Im­pli­ca­tions for EA

jacobpfau4 Aug 2020 1:29 UTC
7 points
20 comments8 min readEA link
(jacobpfau.github.io)

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

Jason Schukraft3 Aug 2020 13:30 UTC
61 points
20 comments26 min readEA link

EA read­ing list: suffer­ing-fo­cused ethics

richard_ngo3 Aug 2020 9:40 UTC
43 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

EA read­ing list: EA mo­ti­va­tions and psychology

richard_ngo3 Aug 2020 9:24 UTC
28 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

EA read­ing list: clue­less­ness and epistemic modesty

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

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

richard_ngo3 Aug 2020 9:22 UTC
24 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

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

richard_ngo3 Aug 2020 9:21 UTC
14 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

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

Jack Malde30 Jul 2020 16:31 UTC
62 points
29 comments18 min readEA link

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

Jack Malde30 Jul 2020 16:31 UTC
62 points
29 comments18 min readEA link

Com­mon ground for longtermists

Tobias_Baumann29 Jul 2020 10:26 UTC
83 points
8 comments4 min readEA link

Utility Cascades

Aaron Gertler29 Jul 2020 7:16 UTC
25 points
3 comments4 min readEA link
(academic.oup.com)

The Sub­jec­tive Ex­pe­rience of Time: Welfare Implications

Jason Schukraft27 Jul 2020 13:24 UTC
106 points
21 comments49 min readEA link

Utili­tar­i­anism with and with­out ex­pected utility

Aaron Gertler24 Jul 2020 6:40 UTC
27 points
4 comments4 min readEA link
(davidmccarthy.org)

Mo­ral cir­cles: De­grees, di­men­sions, visuals

MichaelA24 Jul 2020 4:04 UTC
87 points
10 comments13 min readEA link

Mo­ral cir­cles: De­grees, di­men­sions, visuals

MichaelA24 Jul 2020 4:04 UTC
87 points
10 comments13 min readEA link

Covid offsets and car­bon offsets

Ben23 Jul 2020 21:19 UTC
22 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Put­ting Peo­ple First in a Cul­ture of De­hu­man­iza­tion

jhealy22 Jul 2020 3:31 UTC
16 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Toby Ord: Fireside Chat and Q&A

EA Global21 Jul 2020 16:23 UTC
14 points
0 comments25 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

High stakes in­stru­men­tal­ism and billion­aire philanthropy

John G. Halstead19 Jul 2020 19:19 UTC
61 points
10 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] Why al­tru­ism at all?

Singleton12 Jul 2020 22:04 UTC
−2 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

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

taylorbressford012 Jul 2020 13:46 UTC
6 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What val­ues would EA want to pro­mote?

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

Some his­tory top­ics it might be very valuable to investigate

MichaelA8 Jul 2020 2:40 UTC
91 points
34 comments7 min readEA link

Some his­tory top­ics it might be very valuable to investigate

MichaelA8 Jul 2020 2:40 UTC
91 points
34 comments7 min readEA link

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

EA Global29 Jun 2020 14:02 UTC
26 points
0 comments15 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Dig­nity as al­ter­na­tive EA pri­or­ity—re­quest for feedback

tomwein25 Jun 2020 13:50 UTC
29 points
21 comments2 min readEA link

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

MichaelStJules22 Jun 2020 16:41 UTC
11 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

Me­taeth­i­cal Fa­nat­i­cism (Dialogue)

Lukas_Gloor17 Jun 2020 12:33 UTC
29 points
10 comments15 min readEA link

Why the Irre­ducible Nor­ma­tivity Wager (Mostly) Fails

Lukas_Gloor14 Jun 2020 13:33 UTC
25 points
13 comments10 min readEA link

Against Irre­ducible Normativity

Lukas_Gloor9 Jun 2020 14:38 UTC
48 points
22 comments33 min readEA link

Against Irre­ducible Normativity

Lukas_Gloor9 Jun 2020 14:38 UTC
48 points
22 comments33 min readEA link

Ex­pected value un­der nor­ma­tive uncertainty

Gordon Seidoh Worley8 Jun 2020 15:45 UTC
16 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(philpapers.org)

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

IsabelHasse8 Jun 2020 1:54 UTC
28 points
14 comments1 min readEA link

Why Real­ists and Anti-Real­ists Disagree

Lukas_Gloor5 Jun 2020 7:51 UTC
61 points
28 comments24 min readEA link

How to Mea­sure Ca­pac­ity for Welfare and Mo­ral Status

Jason Schukraft1 Jun 2020 15:01 UTC
71 points
19 comments35 min readEA link

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

Global Priorities Institute31 May 2020 13:35 UTC
4 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

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

Magnus Vinding31 May 2020 9:27 UTC
103 points
20 comments4 min readEA link

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

AlasdairGives30 May 2020 10:54 UTC
47 points
27 comments1 min readEA link

Com­plete archive of the Feli­ci­fia forum

Louis_Francini30 May 2020 10:14 UTC
114 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Some thoughts on defer­ence and in­side-view models

Buck28 May 2020 5:37 UTC
133 points
31 comments10 min readEA link

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

Gordon Seidoh Worley26 May 2020 0:45 UTC
17 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(philpapers.org)

The Alie­na­tion Ob­jec­tion to Consequentialism

Calvin_Baker4 May 2020 20:05 UTC
36 points
15 comments14 min readEA link

Re­duc­ing long-term risks from malev­olent actors

David_Althaus29 Apr 2020 8:55 UTC
326 points
88 comments37 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

If you value fu­ture peo­ple, why do you con­sider near term effects?

Alex HT8 Apr 2020 15:21 UTC
95 points
78 comments14 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism and Free Riding

sbehmer27 Mar 2020 19:12 UTC
124 points
39 comments11 min readEA link

Nor­ma­tive Uncer­tainty and the Depen­dence Problem

Gordon Seidoh Worley23 Mar 2020 17:29 UTC
15 points
4 comments2 min readEA link
(philpapers.org)

Why not give 90%?

HaydenW23 Mar 2020 2:53 UTC
57 points
26 comments7 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

Quotes about the long reflection

MichaelA5 Mar 2020 7:48 UTC
55 points
14 comments13 min readEA link

Ben Grodeck: Co­op­er­at­ing with fu­ture gen­er­a­tions — an ex­per­i­men­tal investigation

EA Global21 Feb 2020 15:28 UTC
17 points
0 comments13 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Hay­den Wilk­in­son: Do­ing good in an in­finite, chaotic world

EA Global18 Feb 2020 23:29 UTC
34 points
1 comment16 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Mo­ral­ity vs re­lated concepts

MichaelA10 Feb 2020 8:02 UTC
19 points
2 comments8 min readEA link

Meta-Prefer­ence Utilitarianism

Bob Jacobs5 Feb 2020 19:14 UTC
10 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

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

stefan.torges17 Jan 2020 13:28 UTC
64 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Growth and the case against ran­domista development

Hauke Hillebrandt16 Jan 2020 10:11 UTC
418 points
197 comments31 min readEA link

Mak­ing de­ci­sions when both morally and em­piri­cally uncertain

MichaelA2 Jan 2020 7:08 UTC
22 points
4 comments20 min readEA link

[Question] What ever hap­pened to PETRL (Peo­ple for the Eth­i­cal Treat­ment of Re­in­force­ment Learn­ers)?

matthew.vandermerwe30 Dec 2019 17:28 UTC
32 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Pur­chase fuzzies and utilons separately

EliezerYudkowsky27 Dec 2019 2:21 UTC
109 points
3 comments5 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Up­date on the Global Pri­ori­ties In­sti­tute’s (GPI) activities

Global Priorities Institute24 Dec 2019 13:51 UTC
23 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

Peter Singer on the 80K podcast

Jon_Behar18 Dec 2019 17:17 UTC
31 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

New re­search on moral weights

GiveWell4 Dec 2019 11:57 UTC
42 points
4 comments2 min readEA link
(blog.givewell.org)

Car­bon Offsets as an Non-Altru­is­tic Expense

Davidmanheim3 Dec 2019 11:38 UTC
25 points
7 comments2 min readEA link

Pre­dic­tion: The long and the short of it

Global Priorities Institute30 Nov 2019 14:32 UTC
3 points
0 comments6 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

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

Ross_Tieman17 Nov 2019 8:42 UTC
31 points
10 comments38 min readEA link

Nor­ma­tive Uncer­tainty and Prob­a­bil­is­tic Mo­ral Knowledge

Gordon Seidoh Worley11 Nov 2019 20:26 UTC
13 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(philpapers.org)

Some Modes of Think­ing about EA

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

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

Pablo5 Nov 2019 20:24 UTC
43 points
6 comments1 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

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

Jakob_J4 Nov 2019 14:34 UTC
28 points
13 comments2 min readEA link

At­tempt at un­der­stand­ing the role of moral philos­o­phy in moral progress

alexhill28 Oct 2019 16:32 UTC
32 points
8 comments5 min readEA link

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

Will Bradshaw28 Oct 2019 15:32 UTC
24 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

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

Linch25 Oct 2019 7:53 UTC
11 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Older peo­ple may place less moral value on the far future

Sanjay22 Oct 2019 14:47 UTC
22 points
9 comments15 min readEA link

Con­di­tional in­ter­ests, asym­me­tries and EA priorities

MichaelStJules21 Oct 2019 6:13 UTC
22 points
23 comments14 min readEA link

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

MichaelStJules19 Oct 2019 4:11 UTC
7 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

Jesse Clif­ton: Open-source learn­ing — a bar­gain­ing approach

EA Global18 Oct 2019 18:05 UTC
10 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Jeff Sebo: A util­i­tar­ian case for an­i­mal rights

EA Global18 Oct 2019 18:05 UTC
26 points
1 comment14 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Chris­tian Tarsney: Can we pre­dictably im­prove the far fu­ture?

EA Global18 Oct 2019 7:40 UTC
10 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Defend­ing the Pro­cre­ation Asym­me­try with Con­di­tional Interests

MichaelStJules13 Oct 2019 18:49 UTC
34 points
13 comments8 min readEA link

‘The only eth­i­cal ar­gu­ment for pos­i­tive δ’?

Global Priorities Institute30 Sep 2019 13:40 UTC
3 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

The asym­me­try, un­cer­tainty, and the long term

Global Priorities Institute30 Sep 2019 13:37 UTC
13 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

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

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

An­dreas Mo­gensen’s “Max­i­mal Clue­less­ness”

Pablo25 Sep 2019 11:18 UTC
65 points
36 comments1 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

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

Aaron Gertler18 Sep 2019 0:23 UTC
37 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

The Long-Term Fu­ture: An At­ti­tude Survey

Aron_Vallinder16 Sep 2019 15:57 UTC
62 points
15 comments8 min readEA link

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

richard_ngo6 Sep 2019 15:33 UTC
36 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

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

richard_ngo6 Sep 2019 11:14 UTC
26 points
40 comments1 min readEA link

A sum­mary of Ni­cholas Beck­stead’s writ­ing on Bayesian Ethics

Jaime Sevilla4 Sep 2019 9:44 UTC
41 points
1 comment6 min readEA link

The Case for Strong Longtermism

Global Priorities Institute3 Sep 2019 1:17 UTC
14 points
1 comment3 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Mean­ing, medicine, and merit

Global Priorities Institute31 Aug 2019 13:42 UTC
3 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

On “fringe” ideas

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

The Mo­ral Cir­cle is not a Circle

Grue_Slinky14 Aug 2019 17:55 UTC
38 points
5 comments8 min readEA link

A bar­gain­ing-the­o­retic ap­proach to moral uncertainty

Global Priorities Institute8 Aug 2019 13:41 UTC
3 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

The Pos­si­bil­ity of an On­go­ing Mo­ral Catas­tro­phe (Sum­mary)

Linch2 Aug 2019 21:55 UTC
128 points
15 comments4 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

Uncer­tainty and Wild An­i­mal Welfare

abrahamrowe19 Jul 2019 13:33 UTC
24 points
0 comments8 min readEA link

Defin­ing Effec­tive Altruism

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

A philo­soph­i­cal in­tro­duc­tion to effec­tive altruism

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

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

MichaelStJules4 Jul 2019 23:56 UTC
11 points
13 comments3 min readEA link

Aid Scep­ti­cism and Effec­tive Altruism

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

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

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

In­ter­view with Jon Mal­latt about in­ver­te­brate consciousness

Max_Carpendale28 Apr 2019 17:52 UTC
83 points
10 comments11 min readEA link

Aging re­search and pop­u­la­tion ethics

Emanuele_Ascani28 Apr 2019 7:20 UTC
25 points
11 comments6 min readEA link

Why an­i­mal char­i­ties are much more effec­tive than hu­man ones

utilitarian018 Apr 2019 17:48 UTC
14 points
15 comments2 min readEA link

Sen­tien­tism: Im­prov­ing the hu­man episte­mol­ogy and ethics baseline

JamieWoodhouse27 Mar 2019 15:34 UTC
8 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Ste­fan Schu­bert: Psy­chol­ogy of Ex­is­ten­tial Risk and Longtermism

EA Global25 Mar 2019 14:45 UTC
34 points
4 comments12 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Effec­tive Altru­ism and Mean­ing in Life

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

Toby Ord: Fireside chat (2018)

EA Global1 Mar 2019 15:48 UTC
20 points
0 comments29 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

[Question] Why do you re­ject nega­tive util­i­tar­i­anism?

Teo Ajantaival12 Feb 2019 7:39 UTC
16 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

The Nar­row­ing Cir­cle (Gw­ern)

Aaron Gertler11 Feb 2019 23:50 UTC
51 points
17 comments5 min readEA link

The Nar­row­ing Cir­cle (Gw­ern)

Aaron Gertler11 Feb 2019 23:50 UTC
51 points
17 comments5 min readEA link

Ar­gu­ments for moral indefinability

richard_ngo8 Feb 2019 11:09 UTC
33 points
8 comments7 min readEA link
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

How can I in­ter­nal­ize my most im­pact­ful nega­tive ex­ter­nal­ities?

rhys_lindmark17 Jan 2019 5:38 UTC
9 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

De­tect­ing Mo­rally Sig­nifi­cant Pain in Non­hu­mans: Some Philo­soph­i­cal Difficulties

Jason Schukraft23 Dec 2018 17:49 UTC
71 points
8 comments22 min readEA link

The ex­pected value of ex­tinc­tion risk re­duc­tion is positive

JanB9 Dec 2018 8:00 UTC
63 points
22 comments39 min readEA link

Ex­is­ten­tial risk as com­mon cause

Gavin5 Dec 2018 14:01 UTC
49 points
22 comments5 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

Non-Con­se­quen­tial­ist Con­sid­er­a­tions For Cause-Pri­oritza­tion Part 2

Parker_Whitfill3 Dec 2018 0:41 UTC
9 points
1 comment11 min readEA link

Non-Con­se­quen­tial­ist Con­sid­er­a­tions For Cause-Pri­oritza­tion Part 1

Parker_Whitfill28 Nov 2018 22:22 UTC
14 points
2 comments15 min readEA link

Tiny Prob­a­bil­ities of Vast Utilities: Bibliog­ra­phy and Appendix

kokotajlod20 Nov 2018 17:34 UTC
10 points
0 comments25 min readEA link

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

Denkenberger19 Nov 2018 21:57 UTC
29 points
4 comments10 min readEA link

Tiny Prob­a­bil­ities of Vast Utilities: Con­clud­ing Arguments

kokotajlod15 Nov 2018 21:47 UTC
33 points
6 comments10 min readEA link

Tiny Prob­a­bil­ities of Vast Utilities: Solutions

kokotajlod14 Nov 2018 16:04 UTC
20 points
5 comments6 min readEA link

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

kokotajlod10 Nov 2018 9:12 UTC
34 points
10 comments8 min readEA link

Even non-the­ists should act as if the­ism is true

slicedonions8 Nov 2018 23:26 UTC
12 points
37 comments5 min readEA link

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

kokotajlod8 Nov 2018 10:09 UTC
30 points
18 comments7 min readEA link

Re­duc­ing ex­is­ten­tial risks or wild an­i­mal suffer­ing?

stijnbruers28 Oct 2018 9:51 UTC
3 points
24 comments11 min readEA link

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

MichaelPlant25 Oct 2018 15:48 UTC
77 points
31 comments39 min readEA link

Wrong by Induction

Ales_Flidr6 Sep 2018 22:00 UTC
20 points
2 comments6 min readEA link

Light­ning talks from EA Global: San Fran­cisco (2018)

EA Global8 Jun 2018 20:51 UTC
7 points
0 comments11 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Tyler John: Per­son­hood initiatives

EA Global8 Jun 2018 7:51 UTC
9 points
0 comments15 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Tyler John: Per­son­hood initiatives

EA Global8 Jun 2018 7:51 UTC
9 points
0 comments15 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

What Is Mo­ral Real­ism?

Lukas_Gloor22 May 2018 15:49 UTC
72 points
30 comments32 min readEA link

Wor­ld­view uncertainty

Ronja_Lutz16 May 2018 14:02 UTC
15 points
5 comments8 min readEA link

The per­son-af­fect­ing value of ex­is­ten­tial risk reduction

Gregory Lewis13 Apr 2018 1:44 UTC
64 points
33 comments4 min readEA link

Com­par­a­tive ad­van­tage in the tal­ent mar­ket

Denise_Melchin11 Apr 2018 23:48 UTC
27 points
23 comments7 min readEA link

De­scrip­tive Pop­u­la­tion Ethics and Its Rele­vance for Cause Prioritization

David_Althaus3 Apr 2018 13:31 UTC
66 points
8 comments13 min readEA link

Why I pri­ori­tize moral cir­cle ex­pan­sion over re­duc­ing ex­tinc­tion risk through ar­tifi­cial in­tel­li­gence alignment

Jacy20 Feb 2018 18:29 UTC
106 points
72 comments36 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

Why I pri­ori­tize moral cir­cle ex­pan­sion over re­duc­ing ex­tinc­tion risk through ar­tifi­cial in­tel­li­gence alignment

Jacy20 Feb 2018 18:29 UTC
106 points
72 comments36 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

Do­ing good while clueless

Milan_Griffes15 Feb 2018 5:04 UTC
46 points
8 comments6 min readEA link

Cause pri­ori­ti­za­tion for down­side-fo­cused value systems

Lukas_Gloor31 Jan 2018 14:47 UTC
75 points
10 comments49 min readEA link

How tractable is clue­less­ness?

Milan_Griffes29 Dec 2017 18:52 UTC
19 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

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

Milan_Griffes21 Dec 2017 19:37 UTC
14 points
29 comments3 min readEA link

How you can save ex­pected lives for $0.20-$400 each and re­duce X risk

Denkenberger27 Nov 2017 2:23 UTC
24 points
5 comments8 min readEA link

What con­se­quences?

Milan_Griffes23 Nov 2017 18:27 UTC
31 points
22 comments8 min readEA link

Cas­par Oester­held: Mul­ti­verse-wide cooperation

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

Ajeya Co­tra: Im­ple­ment­ing cause pri­ori­ti­sa­tion at Open Philanthropy

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

Emilia Wil­son: Univer­sal­ised cri­tiques of EA (light­ning talk)

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

Hilary Greaves: Do­ing good to­gether — col­lec­tivism vs. coordination

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

Jonathan Court­ney: Eth­i­cal obli­ga­tions (light­ning talk)

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

Ste­fan Schu­bert: Un­der­stand­ing cause-neutrality

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

Mul­ti­verse-wide co­op­er­a­tion in a nutshell

Lukas_Gloor2 Nov 2017 10:17 UTC
83 points
10 comments16 min readEA link

In­ter­gen­er­a­tional equity un­der catas­trophic cli­mate change

Global Priorities Institute31 Oct 2017 13:33 UTC
3 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

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

Denkenberger29 Oct 2017 23:28 UTC
38 points
9 comments16 min readEA link

In defence of epistemic modesty

Gregory Lewis29 Oct 2017 19:15 UTC
139 points
51 comments37 min readEA link

The Effec­tive Altru­ism Equal­ity and Jus­tice Project

PouyaJafari6 Oct 2017 20:56 UTC
19 points
4 comments10 min readEA link

S-risk FAQ

Tobias_Baumann18 Sep 2017 8:05 UTC
29 points
8 comments8 min readEA link

Ruairí Don­nelly: Mo­ral trade

EA Global11 Aug 2017 8:19 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Jose Valle: Vir­tual re­al­ity for pro­mot­ing empathy

EA Global11 Aug 2017 8:19 UTC
7 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Does Effec­tive Altru­ism Lead to the Altru­is­tic Repug­nant Con­clu­sion?

RandomEA27 Jul 2017 20:49 UTC
2 points
14 comments2 min readEA link

The Philan­thropist’s Paradox

MichaelPlant24 Jun 2017 10:23 UTC
2 points
15 comments11 min readEA link

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

Julia_Wise21 Jun 2017 21:56 UTC
13 points
14 comments1 min readEA link

New Re­port on Con­scious­ness and Mo­ral Patienthood

lukeprog6 Jun 2017 13:21 UTC
21 points
1 comment2 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

Amanda Askell: The moral value of information

EA Global2 Jun 2017 8:48 UTC
19 points
0 comments14 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Ste­fan Schu­bert: Mo­ral co­op­er­a­tion

EA Global2 Jun 2017 8:48 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Ex­pand­ing the moral cir­cle (Kelly Witwicki)

EA Global2 Jun 2017 8:48 UTC
13 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

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

The asym­me­try and the far future

John G. Halstead9 Mar 2017 22:05 UTC
11 points
14 comments6 min readEA link

Rad­i­cal Empathy

Holden Karnofsky16 Feb 2017 12:41 UTC
63 points
11 comments6 min readEA link

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

Raemon11 Jan 2017 17:45 UTC
31 points
79 comments3 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism is Not a Competition

Peter Wildeford5 Jan 2017 2:11 UTC
80 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

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

MikeJohnson9 Dec 2016 5:47 UTC
29 points
49 comments5 min readEA link

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

MichaelPlant5 Dec 2016 18:57 UTC
40 points
48 comments7 min readEA link

Prospect­ing for Gold (Owen Cot­ton-Bar­ratt)

EA Global18 Nov 2016 12:11 UTC
44 points
5 comments22 min readEA link

In­tegrity for consequentialists

Paul_Christiano14 Nov 2016 20:56 UTC
169 points
18 comments8 min readEA link

Three Heuris­tics for Find­ing Cause X

Kerry_Vaughan4 Nov 2016 14:36 UTC
5 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

The Copen­hagen In­ter­pre­ta­tion of Ethics

jai4 Nov 2016 7:00 UTC
96 points
2 comments5 min readEA link
(laneless.substack.com)

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 need for con­ver­gence on an eth­i­cal theory

MichaelDello19 Sep 2016 6:40 UTC
5 points
13 comments3 min readEA link

Scott Alexan­der – Ax­iol­ogy, Mo­ral­ity, Law

Tessa28 Aug 2016 15:00 UTC
9 points
0 comments11 min readEA link
(slatestarcodex.com)

End-Re­la­tional The­ory of Meta-ethics: A Dialogue

Peter Wildeford28 Jun 2016 20:11 UTC
38 points
5 comments16 min readEA link

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

Philo­soph­i­cal Cri­tiques of Effec­tive Altru­ism by Prof Jeff McMahan

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

“Allkind”

tyleralterman14 Feb 2016 1:24 UTC
20 points
2 comments6 min readEA link

“Allkind”

tyleralterman14 Feb 2016 1:24 UTC
20 points
2 comments6 min readEA link

Some con­sid­er­a­tions for differ­ent ways to re­duce x-risk

Jacy4 Feb 2016 3:21 UTC
28 points
34 comments5 min readEA link

Some con­sid­er­a­tions for differ­ent ways to re­duce x-risk

Jacy4 Feb 2016 3:21 UTC
28 points
34 comments5 min readEA link

Be­ware sur­pris­ing and sus­pi­cious convergence

Gregory Lewis24 Jan 2016 19:11 UTC
211 points
20 comments15 min readEA link

Find­ing more effec­tive causes

Michelle_Hutchinson1 Jan 2016 22:54 UTC
20 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

Why do effec­tive al­tru­ists sup­port the causes we do?

Michelle_Hutchinson30 Dec 2015 17:51 UTC
27 points
15 comments6 min readEA link

Why do effec­tive al­tru­ists sup­port the causes we do?

Michelle_Hutchinson30 Dec 2015 17:51 UTC
27 points
15 comments6 min readEA link

Mo­ral anti-re­al­ists don’t have to bite bullets

Lila27 Dec 2015 16:48 UTC
7 points
9 comments2 min readEA link

Are GiveWell Top Char­i­ties Too Spec­u­la­tive?

MichaelDickens21 Dec 2015 4:05 UTC
24 points
58 comments3 min readEA link

An em­bar­rass­ment of riches

Julia_Wise19 Nov 2015 18:23 UTC
29 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

At what cost, car­nivory?

Gregory Lewis29 Oct 2015 23:37 UTC
12 points
13 comments15 min readEA link

Don’t sweat diet?

Gregory Lewis22 Oct 2015 20:15 UTC
18 points
41 comments5 min readEA link

On Values Spreading

MichaelDickens11 Sep 2015 3:57 UTC
32 points
13 comments11 min readEA link

Peter Singer: Non-hu­man an­i­mal ethics

EA Global28 Aug 2015 17:21 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Hilary Greaves: Repug­nant interventions

EA Global28 Aug 2015 16:14 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Justin Oak­ley: Virtue ethics and effec­tive altruism

EA Global28 Aug 2015 9:21 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

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

JamesSnowden12 Aug 2015 15:13 UTC
29 points
16 comments1 min readEA link

On ev­ery­day al­tru­ism and the lo­cal circle

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

The Value of a Life

So8res17 Feb 2015 17:33 UTC
31 points
10 comments10 min readEA link

$5 billion in moral trade sur­plus?

Andrew_SB4 Feb 2015 17:22 UTC
16 points
15 comments1 min readEA link

The Priv­ilege of Earn­ing To Give

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

Why I Don’t Ac­count for Mo­ral Uncertainty

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

Prob­lems and Solu­tions in In­finite Ethics

Ben_West1 Jan 2015 20:47 UTC
14 points
74 comments5 min readEA link

Blind Spots: Compartmentalizing

Dale31 Dec 2014 22:25 UTC
20 points
55 comments14 min readEA link

Blind Spots: Compartmentalizing

Dale31 Dec 2014 22:25 UTC
20 points
55 comments14 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism is a Ques­tion (not an ide­ol­ogy)

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

Aim high, even if you fall short

Julia_Wise11 Oct 2014 17:26 UTC
150 points
11 comments2 min readEA link

Co­op­er­a­tion in a move­ment sup­port­ing di­verse causes

Owen Cotton-Barratt23 Sep 2014 10:47 UTC
18 points
15 comments3 min readEA link

Cosmopolitanism

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

Cosmopolitanism

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

The Drown­ing Child and the Ex­pand­ing Circle

Peter Singer9 Sep 2014 15:16 UTC
67 points
31 comments7 min readEA link

The Mo­ral Value of the Far Future

Holden Karnofsky3 Jul 2014 12:43 UTC
2 points
0 comments8 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

The Mo­ral Value of the Far Future

Holden Karnofsky3 Jul 2014 12:43 UTC
2 points
0 comments8 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

Will MacAskill on nor­ma­tive uncertainty

lukeprog9 Apr 2014 15:27 UTC
2 points
0 comments8 min readEA link

Brian To­masik – Rea­sons to Be Nice to Other Value Systems

Tessa17 Jan 2014 0:28 UTC
18 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(longtermrisk.org)

Altru­ism isn’t about sacrifice

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

Altru­ism isn’t about sacrifice

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

How might we be wildly wrong?

William_MacAskill4 Sep 2013 19:19 UTC
3 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Effi­cient char­ity: do unto oth­ers...

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

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

Peter Wildeford7 Aug 2013 4:00 UTC
48 points
0 comments11 min readEA link

A pro­posed ad­just­ment to the as­tro­nom­i­cal waste argument

Nick_Beckstead27 May 2013 4:00 UTC
43 points
0 comments12 min readEA link

What is effec­tive al­tru­ism?

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

The most im­por­tant un­solved prob­lems in ethics

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

How to be a high im­pact philoso­pher, part II

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

How to be a high im­pact philosopher

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

Prac­ti­cal ethics given moral uncertainty

William_MacAskill31 Jan 2012 5:00 UTC
23 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

Giv­ing isn’t de­mand­ing*

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