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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
62
Do Brains Contain Many Conscious Subsystems? If So, Should We Act Differently?
Bob Fischer
15d
7
430
EA is about maximization, and maximization is perilous
Holden Karnofsky
3mo
56
14
Protecting EV calculations against motivated reasoning
freedomandutility
8d
0
29
Should strong longtermists really want to minimize existential risk?
tobycrisford
16d
9
31
Geometric Rationality is Not VNM Rational
Scott Garrabrant
23d
0
17
Respecting your Local Preferences
Scott Garrabrant
24d
0
15
Improving EA with More, Better Debates | Recorded Discussion between Elliot and Emrik
Elliot Temple
28d
2
33
Decision theory does not imply that we get to have nice things
So8res
2mo
0
11
The Least Controversial Application of Geometric Rationality
Scott Garrabrant
25d
0
48
The Maximum Impact Fund is now the Top Charities Fund
GiveWell
3mo
3
58
Fanatical EAs should support very weird projects
Derek Shiller
5mo
42
5
Fair Collective Efficient Altruism
Jobst Heitzig (vodle.it)
22d
1
93
On infinite ethics
Joe_Carlsmith
10mo
24
55
St. Petersburg Demon – a thought experiment that makes me doubt Longtermism
wuschel
7mo
41
206
Getting on a different train: can Effective Altruism avoid collapsing into absurdity?
Peter McLaughlin
2mo
60
127
Effective Altruism's Implicit Epistemology
Violet Hour
2mo
9
119
"Doing Good Best" isn't the EA ideal
Davidmanheim
3mo
17
166
Altruism as a central purpose
Joey
8mo
8
53
Internationalism is a key value in EA
freedomandutility
4mo
15
54
[Link] Luke Muehlhauser: Effective Altruism As I See It
Aryeh Englander
6mo
4
60
'Beneficentrism', by Richard Yetter Chappell
Pablo
7mo
12
38
All moral decisions in life are on a heavy-tailed distribution
Max Görlitz
5mo
6
84
Effective Altruism: The First Decade (Forum Review)
Aaron Gertler
1y
47
11
My favourite motivator for longtermism
Jack Malde
2mo
1
28
The Emotional Case For Longtermism
Simon Bazelon
8mo
3
28
What is Intersectionality Theory? What does it mean for EA?
John Bridge
8mo
42
89
What actually is the argument for effective altruism?
Benjamin_Todd
2y
29
9
[Cause Exploration Prizes] Improving general public’s altruistic decision-making
ThangTran
3mo
0