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Richard Y Chappell🔸

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Academic philosopher, co-editor of utilitarianism.net, writes goodthoughts.blog

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Fac­ing up to the Price on Life

Richard Y Chappell🔸29 Jan 2025 17:06 UTC
62 points
9 comments3 min readEA link
(www.goodthoughts.blog)

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

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

When is Philos­o­phy Worth Fund­ing?

Richard Y Chappell🔸11 Nov 2024 21:48 UTC
30 points
5 comments5 min readEA link

Count­ing Costless Beneficence

Richard Y Chappell🔸4 Nov 2024 15:32 UTC
12 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(www.goodthoughts.blog)

QB: How Much do Fu­ture Gen­er­a­tions Mat­ter?

Richard Y Chappell🔸18 Oct 2024 15:22 UTC
26 points
2 comments5 min readEA link
(www.goodthoughts.blog)

Richard Y Chap­pell’s Quick takes

Richard Y Chappell🔸8 Oct 2024 19:34 UTC
8 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Seek­ing Rip­ple Effects

Richard Y Chappell🔸8 Oct 2024 14:00 UTC
66 points
20 comments2 min readEA link
(www.goodthoughts.blog)

Ques­tion­ing Benefi­cence: Four Philoso­phers on Effec­tive Altru­ism and Do­ing Good

Richard Y Chappell🔸28 Sep 2024 15:45 UTC
35 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(www.goodthoughts.blog)

Good Judg­ment with Numbers

Richard Y Chappell🔸23 Sep 2024 15:10 UTC
60 points
12 comments6 min readEA link
(www.goodthoughts.blog)

Utili­tar­i­anism.net Updates

Richard Y Chappell🔸16 Sep 2024 22:03 UTC
112 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(www.goodthoughts.blog)

Ex­plicit Ethics

Richard Y Chappell🔸20 Aug 2024 16:17 UTC
12 points
4 comments2 min readEA link
(www.goodthoughts.blog)

‘Open to De­bate’ Singer/​Crary EA de­bate—July 10

Richard Y Chappell🔸8 Jul 2024 19:54 UTC
111 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Im­perfec­tion is OK

Richard Y Chappell🔸6 Jul 2024 18:43 UTC
59 points
5 comments6 min readEA link
(www.goodthoughts.blog)

Mo­ral Mis­di­rec­tion (full post)

Richard Y Chappell🔸14 Jun 2024 18:49 UTC
43 points
1 comment12 min readEA link
(www.goodthoughts.blog)

What “Effec­tive Altru­ism” Means to Me

Richard Y Chappell🔸14 Jun 2024 18:13 UTC
57 points
18 comments7 min readEA link
(www.goodthoughts.blog)

Astro­nom­i­cal Cake

Richard Y Chappell🔸5 Jun 2024 14:12 UTC
60 points
7 comments5 min readEA link
(www.goodthoughts.blog)

Against Tau­tolog­i­cal Motivations

Richard Y Chappell🔸2 Jun 2024 19:03 UTC
62 points
9 comments3 min readEA link
(www.goodthoughts.blog)

Benefi­cen­tric Virtue Ethics

Richard Y Chappell🔸16 May 2024 20:54 UTC
36 points
14 comments4 min readEA link
(rychappell.substack.com)

A tril­ogy on anti-philan­thropic misdirection

Richard Y Chappell🔸5 Apr 2024 16:39 UTC
103 points
12 comments1 min readEA link
(rychappell.substack.com)

EA “Wor­ld­views” Need Rethinking

Richard Y Chappell🔸18 Mar 2024 15:10 UTC
290 points
82 comments3 min readEA link