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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
40
Saving Lives vs Creating Lives
Richard Y Chappell
5d
17
10
Should we discount future people in proportion to the probability of them not existing?
Joseph Lemien
3d
3
77
Do Brains Contain Many Conscious Subsystems? If So, Should We Act Differently?
Bob Fischer
15d
7
3
List of reasons to discount the welfare of future generations
freedomandutility
3d
4
418
EA is about maximization, and maximization is perilous
Holden Karnofsky
3mo
56
11
Protecting EV calculations against motivated reasoning
freedomandutility
8d
0
30
Should strong longtermists really want to minimize existential risk?
tobycrisford
16d
9
167
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
24
Against meta-ethical hedonism
Joe_Carlsmith
18d
2
115
Effective Altruism's Implicit Epistemology
Violet Hour
2mo
9
38
Geometric Rationality is Not VNM Rational
Scott Garrabrant
23d
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What would power-seeking, misaligned AGI actually do?
Kiel Brennan-Marquez
10d
1
52
A Case for Voluntary Abortion Reduction
Ariel Simnegar
10h
71
7
Vegaphobia - A Brief Presentation
dlnrbts283
2h
0
96
Promoting compassionate longtermism
jonleighton
13d
1
284
New book on s-risks
Tobias_Baumann
1mo
25
22
Talent search-nurture program in rural India - Progress and Asks
Akash Kulgod
11d
1
90
Naïve vs Prudent Utilitarianism
Richard Y Chappell
1mo
42
48
Deontology and virtue ethics as "effective theories" of consequentialist ethics
Jan_Kulveit
1mo
11
213
Critique of MacAskill’s “Is It Good to Make Happy People?”
Magnus Vinding
3mo
114
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Minimalist extended very repugnant conclusions are the least repugnant
Teo Ajantaival
1mo
0
9
The Categorical Imperative Obscures Ethics
Gordon Seidoh Worley
14d
2
36
Deontology is not the solution
Peter McLaughlin
1mo
1
108
Reasoning Transparency
Lizka
2mo
8
175
Prioritizing x-risks may require caring about future people
elifland
4mo
39
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Talk - 'Caring for the Far Future'
Yadav
11d
0