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Moral philosophy
Utilitarianism
Moral uncertainty
Metaethics
Aging research
Wellbeing
Normative ethics
Hedonism
Classical utilitarianism
Other moral theories
Introspective hedonism
Jeremy Bentham
123 posts
Philosophy of effective altruism
Fanaticism
Altruistic motivation
Altruistic wager
Expected value
Decision theory
Definition of effective altruism
Pascal's mugging
Competitive debating
Excited vs. obligatory altruism
Infinite ethics
Forum Review
35
New blog: Some doubts about effective altruism
David Thorstad
4h
5
36
Saving Lives vs Creating Lives
Richard Y Chappell
5d
17
9
Should we discount future people in proportion to the probability of them not existing?
Joseph Lemien
3d
3
6
List of reasons to discount the welfare of future generations
freedomandutility
3d
4
25
Consequentialism does not endorse frauding-to-give
Jasper Meyer
13d
9
19
Righting past wrongs by recovering past lives via simulation
MaxRa
1mo
19
64
Person-affecting intuitions can often be money pumped
Rohin Shah
5mo
72
110
Puzzles for Everyone
Richard Y Chappell
3mo
38
28
A Newcomer's Critique of EA - Underprioritizing Systems Change?
Sam Battis
1mo
10
3
What would power-seeking, misaligned AGI actually do?
Kiel Brennan-Marquez
10d
1
3
Utilitarianism is the only option
aelwood
17d
3
20
Four Quotes on Preference Utilitarianism
Maximilian Schlederer
2mo
14
91
Common-sense cases where "hypothetical future people" matter
levin
4mo
21
22
EA criticism contest: Why I am not an effective altruist
ErikHoel
4mo
23
62
Do Brains Contain Many Conscious Subsystems? If So, Should We Act Differently?
Bob Fischer
15d
7
206
Getting on a different train: can Effective Altruism avoid collapsing into absurdity?
Peter McLaughlin
2mo
60
29
Should strong longtermists really want to minimize existential risk?
tobycrisford
16d
9
28
What reason is there NOT to accept Pascal's Wager?
Khai
4mo
80
430
EA is about maximization, and maximization is perilous
Holden Karnofsky
3mo
56
58
Fanatical EAs should support very weird projects
Derek Shiller
5mo
42
16
Does this solve Pascal's Muggings?
Sanjay
3mo
26
119
"Doing Good Best" isn't the EA ideal
Davidmanheim
3mo
17
127
Effective Altruism's Implicit Epistemology
Violet Hour
2mo
9
53
Internationalism is a key value in EA
freedomandutility
4mo
15
15
Improving EA with More, Better Debates | Recorded Discussion between Elliot and Emrik
Elliot Temple
28d
2
28
Uncorrelated Bets: an easy to understand and very important decision theory consideration, which helps tease out nonobvious but productive criticism of the EA movement
Uncorrelated Returns
4mo
8
5
Fair Collective Efficient Altruism
Jobst Heitzig (vodle.it)
22d
1
16
A model about the effect of total existential risk on career choice
Jonas Moss
3mo
4