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Philosophy of effective altruism
Jeff McMahan
29 posts
Altruistic motivation
Definition of effective altruism
Excited vs. obligatory altruism
Forum Review
Effective altruism
Style guide
Cosmopolitanism
167
Getting on a different train: can Effective Altruism avoid collapsing into absurdity?
Peter McLaughlin
2mo
60
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"Doing Good Best" isn't the EA ideal
Davidmanheim
3mo
17
115
Effective Altruism's Implicit Epistemology
Violet Hour
2mo
9
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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
2
Effective vs Altruism
Liat Zvi
3mo
1
48
Philosophical Critiques of Effective Altruism by Prof Jeff McMahan
Robert_Wiblin
6y
9
9
Are many EAs philosophical pragmatists?
rorty
1y
7
33
Efficient charity: do unto others...
Scott Alexander
9y
7
14
What is effective altruism?
William_MacAskill
9y
29
12
Stefan Schubert: Understanding cause-neutrality
EA Global
5y
0
32
Will MacAskill: Why should effective altruists embrace uncertainty?
EA Global
4y
2
74
What are the key ongoing debates in EA?
richard_ngo
2y
54
21
The world is full of wasted motion
Neel Nanda
2y
2
52
Internationalism is a key value in EA
freedomandutility
4mo
15
165
Altruism as a central purpose
Joey
8mo
8
17
My favourite motivator for longtermism
Jack Malde
2mo
1
29
The Emotional Case For Longtermism
Simon Bazelon
8mo
3
73
'Beneficentrism', by Richard Yetter Chappell
Pablo
7mo
12
12
Why do you care?
anonymous1
7mo
7
14
Is not giving to X-risk or far future orgs for reasons of risk aversion selfish?
MichaelDello
6y
21
39
Choosing the Zero Point
orthonormal
2y
2
6
Robin Hanson: Nature of altruism I
EA Global
7y
0
108
Defining Effective Altruism
William_MacAskill
3y
22
52
Altruistic Motivations
So8res
3y
7
4
A possible introduction-to-EA essay
LRudL
8mo
0
68
Purchase fuzzies and utilons separately
EliezerYudkowsky
2y
1
4
NBER Paper: Preferences for Giving Versus Preferences for Redistribution
jasonk
1y
0