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Moral philosophy
Utilitarianism
Moral uncertainty
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Normative ethics
Hedonism
Classical utilitarianism
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
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
3
List of reasons to discount the welfare of future generations
freedomandutility
3d
4
16
Consequentialism does not endorse frauding-to-give
Jasper Meyer
13d
9
24
Against meta-ethical hedonism
Joe_Carlsmith
18d
2
4
What would power-seeking, misaligned AGI actually do?
Kiel Brennan-Marquez
10d
1
111
Puzzles for Everyone
Richard Y Chappell
3mo
38
13
Success Maximization: An Alternative to Expected Utility Theory and a Generalization of Maxipok to Moral Uncertainty
Mahendra Prasad
24d
3
26
A Newcomer's Critique of EA - Underprioritizing Systems Change?
Sam Battis
1mo
10
24
Tainted donations: a historical perspective from Rhodri Davies
Sanjay
1mo
1
9
Consequentialism as an experimental discipline
vandermude
21d
2
24
Utilitarianism Meets Egalitarianism
Scott Garrabrant
28d
0
106
Common-sense cases where "hypothetical future people" matter
levin
4mo
21
77
Do Brains Contain Many Conscious Subsystems? If So, Should We Act Differently?
Bob Fischer
15d
7
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
115
Effective Altruism's Implicit Epistemology
Violet Hour
2mo
9
38
Geometric Rationality is Not VNM Rational
Scott Garrabrant
23d
0
20
Respecting your Local Preferences
Scott Garrabrant
24d
0
118
"Doing Good Best" isn't the EA ideal
Davidmanheim
3mo
17
17
Improving EA with More, Better Debates | Recorded Discussion between Elliot and Emrik
Elliot Temple
28d
2
14
The Least Controversial Application of Geometric Rationality
Scott Garrabrant
25d
0
37
Decision theory does not imply that we get to have nice things
So8res
2mo
0
3
Fair Collective Efficient Altruism
Jobst Heitzig (vodle.it)
22d
1
57
The Maximum Impact Fund is now the Top Charities Fund
GiveWell
3mo
3