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Fanaticism
Decision theory
Altruistic wager
Expected value
Pascal's mugging
Competitive debating
Infinite ethics
Decision-theoretic uncertainty
Interpersonal comparisons of wellbeing
Michael Huemer
Normative uncertainty
59 posts
Philosophy of effective altruism
Altruistic motivation
Definition of effective altruism
Excited vs. obligatory altruism
Forum Review
Cosmopolitanism
Effective altruism
Style guide
Jeff McMahan
77
Do Brains Contain Many Conscious Subsystems? If So, Should We Act Differently?
Bob Fischer
15d
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30
Should strong longtermists really want to minimize existential risk?
tobycrisford
16d
9
30
What reason is there NOT to accept Pascal's Wager?
Khai
4mo
80
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EA is about maximization, and maximization is perilous
Holden Karnofsky
3mo
56
46
Fanatical EAs should support very weird projects
Derek Shiller
5mo
42
15
Does this solve Pascal's Muggings?
Sanjay
3mo
26
17
Improving EA with More, Better Debates | Recorded Discussion between Elliot and Emrik
Elliot Temple
28d
2
22
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
3
Fair Collective Efficient Altruism
Jobst Heitzig (vodle.it)
22d
1
11
A model about the effect of total existential risk on career choice
Jonas Moss
3mo
4
57
The Maximum Impact Fund is now the Top Charities Fund
GiveWell
3mo
3
15
High-risk high-reward philanthropy: applying venture capital concepts to doing good
James Ozden
5mo
2
1
Expected Value
EA Handbook
5mo
1
5
A Paradox for Tiny Probabilities and Enormous Values
Global Priorities Institute
1y
1
167
Getting on a different train: can Effective Altruism avoid collapsing into absurdity?
Peter McLaughlin
2mo
60
118
"Doing Good Best" isn't the EA ideal
Davidmanheim
3mo
17
115
Effective Altruism's Implicit Epistemology
Violet Hour
2mo
9
52
Internationalism is a key value in EA
freedomandutility
4mo
15
41
All moral decisions in life are on a heavy-tailed distribution
Max Görlitz
5mo
6
0
Will Maskill Gave Up on Utilitarianism (and the rest of us are soon to follow)
johnburidan
5mo
5
165
Altruism as a central purpose
Joey
8mo
8
17
My favourite motivator for longtermism
Jack Malde
2mo
1
2
Effective vs Altruism
Liat Zvi
3mo
1
48
Philosophical Critiques of Effective Altruism by Prof Jeff McMahan
Robert_Wiblin
6y
9
29
The Emotional Case For Longtermism
Simon Bazelon
8mo
3
9
Are many EAs philosophical pragmatists?
rorty
1y
7
33
Efficient charity: do unto others...
Scott Alexander
9y
7
73
'Beneficentrism', by Richard Yetter Chappell
Pablo
7mo
12