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Moral philosophy
Philosophy of effective altruism
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Fanaticism
Decision theory
Metaethics
Altruistic motivation
Altruistic wager
Aging research
Wellbeing
Expected value
154 posts
Population ethics
Suffering-focused ethics
S-risk
Center for Reducing Suffering
Education
Ethics of existential risk
Naive vs. sophisticated consequentialism
Axiology
Negative utilitarianism
Review crosspost
Repugnant conclusion
Moral advocacy
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New blog: Some doubts about effective altruism
David Thorstad
4h
5
44
Saving Lives vs Creating Lives
Richard Y Chappell
5d
17
11
Should we discount future people in proportion to the probability of them not existing?
Joseph Lemien
3d
3
0
List of reasons to discount the welfare of future generations
freedomandutility
3d
4
92
Do Brains Contain Many Conscious Subsystems? If So, Should We Act Differently?
Bob Fischer
15d
7
128
Getting on a different train: can Effective Altruism avoid collapsing into absurdity?
Peter McLaughlin
2mo
60
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Consequentialism does not endorse frauding-to-give
Jasper Meyer
13d
9
31
Should strong longtermists really want to minimize existential risk?
tobycrisford
16d
9
32
What reason is there NOT to accept Pascal's Wager?
Khai
4mo
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EA is about maximization, and maximization is perilous
Holden Karnofsky
3mo
56
33
Righting past wrongs by recovering past lives via simulation
MaxRa
1mo
19
120
Person-affecting intuitions can often be money pumped
Rohin Shah
5mo
72
112
Puzzles for Everyone
Richard Y Chappell
3mo
38
24
A Newcomer's Critique of EA - Underprioritizing Systems Change?
Sam Battis
1mo
10
76
A Case for Voluntary Abortion Reduction
Ariel Simnegar
10h
71
209
Prioritizing x-risks may require caring about future people
elifland
4mo
39
99
Naïve vs Prudent Utilitarianism
Richard Y Chappell
1mo
42
197
Critique of MacAskill’s “Is It Good to Make Happy People?”
Magnus Vinding
3mo
114
253
New book on s-risks
Tobias_Baumann
1mo
25
35
Deontology and virtue ethics as "effective theories" of consequentialist ethics
Jan_Kulveit
1mo
11
61
Confused about "making people happy" vs. "making happy people"
tobiasleenaert
5mo
46
26
Deontology, the Paralysis Argument and altruistic longtermism
William D'Alessandro
3mo
4
46
Announcing “Effective Dropouts”
Yonatan Cale
3mo
21
2
Will longtermists self-efface
Noah Scales
4mo
23
52
The Repugnant Conclusion Isn't
AppliedDivinityStudies
3mo
24
11
The Categorical Imperative Obscures Ethics
Gordon Seidoh Worley
14d
2
134
Integrity for consequentialists
Paul_Christiano
6y
19
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My (Lazy) Longtermism FAQ
Devin Kalish
1mo
6