Richard Y Chappell

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Academic philosopher, co-editor of utilitarianism.net, blogs at https://rychappell.substack.com/

A trilogy on anti-philanthropic misdirection

Richard Y Chappell5 Apr 2024 16:39 UTC

103 points

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EA “Worldviews” Need Rethinking

Richard Y Chappell18 Mar 2024 15:10 UTC

284 points

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The Dangers of a Little Knowledge

Richard Y Chappell2 Jan 2024 0:29 UTC

28 points

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Doing Good Effectively is Unusual

Richard Y Chappell1 Dec 2023 17:03 UTC

174 points

26 comments7 min readEA link

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Confessions of a Cheeseburger Ethicist

Richard Y Chappell17 Nov 2023 16:09 UTC

33 points

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Against Conditional Beneficence

Richard Y Chappell9 Nov 2023 16:55 UTC

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Utilitarianism.net Audio

Richard Y Chappell9 Aug 2023 15:57 UTC

34 points

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Uncertain Optimizing and Opportunity Costs

Richard Y Chappell4 Aug 2023 19:02 UTC

28 points

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X-risk Agnosticism

Richard Y Chappell8 Jun 2023 15:02 UTC

34 points

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Review of Animal Liberation Now

Richard Y Chappell23 May 2023 19:07 UTC

81 points

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Why Not EA? [paper draft]

Richard Y Chappell9 May 2023 19:03 UTC

47 points

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Review of The Good It Promises, the Harm It Does

Richard Y Chappell2 May 2023 15:45 UTC

210 points

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The Latest NYT article on EA/SBF

Richard Y Chappell21 Feb 2023 16:55 UTC

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Deontic Fictionalism

Richard Y Chappell17 Feb 2023 13:44 UTC

37 points

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Good Thoughts (substack) 2022 review

Richard Y Chappell30 Dec 2022 16:26 UTC

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Saving Lives vs Creating Lives

Richard Y Chappell15 Dec 2022 0:32 UTC

45 points

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

Richard Y Chappell12 Dec 2022 16:05 UTC

144 points

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Naïve vs Prudent Utilitarianism

Richard Y Chappell11 Nov 2022 23:53 UTC

97 points

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Consequentialism and Cluelessness

Richard Y Chappell17 Oct 2022 18:57 UTC

32 points

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Puzzles for Everyone

Richard Y Chappell10 Sep 2022 2:11 UTC

116 points

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