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Moral philosophy
Utilitarianism
Moral uncertainty
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Normative ethics
Hedonism
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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
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
25
Against meta-ethical hedonism
Joe_Carlsmith
18d
2
34
Utilitarianism Meets Egalitarianism
Scott Garrabrant
28d
0
112
Puzzles for Everyone
Richard Y Chappell
3mo
38
121
Common-sense cases where "hypothetical future people" matter
levin
4mo
21
33
Righting past wrongs by recovering past lives via simulation
MaxRa
1mo
19
24
A Newcomer's Critique of EA - Underprioritizing Systems Change?
Sam Battis
1mo
10
7
Consequentialism does not endorse frauding-to-give
Jasper Meyer
13d
9
5
What would power-seeking, misaligned AGI actually do?
Kiel Brennan-Marquez
10d
1
120
Person-affecting intuitions can often be money pumped
Rohin Shah
5mo
72
40
Against the normative realist's wager
Joe_Carlsmith
2mo
5
15
The SBF Saga Is Not A Reason to Throw Out the Moral Calculus
sampajanna
1mo
2
92
Do Brains Contain Many Conscious Subsystems? If So, Should We Act Differently?
Bob Fischer
15d
7
406
EA is about maximization, and maximization is perilous
Holden Karnofsky
3mo
56
31
Should strong longtermists really want to minimize existential risk?
tobycrisford
16d
9
45
Geometric Rationality is Not VNM Rational
Scott Garrabrant
23d
0
128
Getting on a different train: can Effective Altruism avoid collapsing into absurdity?
Peter McLaughlin
2mo
60
103
Effective Altruism's Implicit Epistemology
Violet Hour
2mo
9
8
Protecting EV calculations against motivated reasoning
freedomandutility
8d
0
117
"Doing Good Best" isn't the EA ideal
Davidmanheim
3mo
17
23
Respecting your Local Preferences
Scott Garrabrant
24d
0
17
The Least Controversial Application of Geometric Rationality
Scott Garrabrant
25d
0
19
Improving EA with More, Better Debates | Recorded Discussion between Elliot and Emrik
Elliot Temple
28d
2
41
Decision theory does not imply that we get to have nice things
So8res
2mo
0
66
The Maximum Impact Fund is now the Top Charities Fund
GiveWell
3mo
3
164
Altruism as a central purpose
Joey
8mo
8