Joe_Carlsmith

Karma: 2,927

Senior research analyst at Open Philanthropy. Doctorate in philosophy at the University of Oxford. Opinions my own.

Wholehearted choices and “morality as taxes”

Joe_Carlsmith21 Dec 2020 19:35 UTC

79 points

8 comments4 min readEA link

Thoughts on being mortal

Joe_Carlsmith1 Jan 2021 19:16 UTC

58 points

3 comments6 min readEA link

The despair of normative realism bot

Joe_Carlsmith3 Jan 2021 22:59 UTC

34 points

3 comments18 min readEA link

Grokking illusionism

Joe_Carlsmith6 Jan 2021 5:50 UTC

29 points

0 comments9 min readEA link

Thoughts on personal identity

Joe_Carlsmith8 Jan 2021 4:19 UTC

21 points

0 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

The impact merge

Joe_Carlsmith13 Jan 2021 7:26 UTC

29 points

0 comments4 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

Actually possible: thoughts on Utopia

Joe_Carlsmith18 Jan 2021 8:27 UTC

81 points

4 comments13 min readEA link

A ghost

Joe_Carlsmith21 Jan 2021 7:14 UTC

2 points

0 comments5 min readEA link

On clinging

Joe_Carlsmith24 Jan 2021 23:25 UTC

29 points

2 comments8 min readEA link

Believing in things you cannot see

Joe_Carlsmith1 Feb 2021 7:24 UTC

15 points

1 comment11 min readEA link

Killing the ants

Joe_Carlsmith7 Feb 2021 23:16 UTC

225 points

18 comments8 min readEA link

Contact with reality

Joe_Carlsmith15 Feb 2021 4:53 UTC

47 points

4 comments21 min readEA link

Two types of deference

Joe_Carlsmith22 Feb 2021 3:27 UTC

10 points

0 comments5 min readEA link

Subjectivism and moral authority

Joe_Carlsmith1 Mar 2021 8:59 UTC

15 points

1 comment14 min readEA link

Care and demandingness

Joe_Carlsmith8 Mar 2021 6:59 UTC

54 points

2 comments11 min readEA link

Against neutrality about creating happy lives

Joe_Carlsmith15 Mar 2021 1:54 UTC

95 points

37 comments11 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

The importance of how you weigh it

Joe_Carlsmith29 Mar 2021 4:58 UTC

42 points

2 comments12 min readEA link