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Moral philosophy
Moral uncertainty
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Debunking argument
Bernard Williams
83 posts
Utilitarianism
Aging research
Wellbeing
Normative ethics
Hedonism
Classical utilitarianism
Introspective hedonism
Jeremy Bentham
Other moral theories
John Stuart Mill
222
Killing the ants
Joe_Carlsmith
1y
13
110
Puzzles for Everyone
Richard Y Chappell
3mo
38
98
The Possibility of an Ongoing Moral Catastrophe (Summary)
Linch
3y
11
91
Common-sense cases where "hypothetical future people" matter
levin
4mo
21
78
The Strange Shortage of Moral Optimizers
Richard Y Chappell
6mo
26
74
New book: Moral Uncertainty by MacAskill, Ord & Bykvist
frankieaw
2y
2
74
What Is Moral Realism?
Lukas_Gloor
4y
26
64
Person-affecting intuitions can often be money pumped
Rohin Shah
5mo
72
62
On the limits of idealized values
Joe_Carlsmith
1y
9
60
Why Realists and Anti-Realists Disagree
Lukas_Gloor
2y
28
56
Reasons and Persons: Watch theories eat themselves
Aaron Gertler
12mo
9
55
Wheeling and dealing: An internal bargaining approach to moral uncertainty
MichaelPlant
5mo
17
51
Virtue signaling is sometimes the best or the only metric we have
Holly_Elmore
7mo
11
50
High stakes instrumentalism and billionaire philanthropy
John G. Halstead
2y
10
133
Scope-sensitive ethics: capturing the core intuition motivating utilitarianism
richard_ngo
1y
19
88
Launching Utilitarianism.net: An Introductory Online Textbook on Utilitarianism
Darius_M
2y
27
83
Stress - effective ways to reduce it
Ben Williamson
12mo
22
69
Doubts about Track Record Arguments for Utilitarianism
Erich_Grunewald
10mo
16
65
Why SENS makes sense
Emanuele_Ascani
2y
51
61
Future-proof ethics
Holden Karnofsky
10mo
57
51
Buddhism and Utilitarianism; EA vs EB
Richard Y Chappell
6mo
14
51
Theses on Sleep
guzey
10mo
22
51
Interview with Aubrey de Grey, chief science officer of the SENS Research Foundation
Emanuele_Ascani
2y
1
50
Punching Utilitarians in the Face
AppliedDivinityStudies
5mo
30
49
Harsanyi's simple “proof” of utilitarianism
Ben_West
2y
39
49
Book Review: Deontology by Jeremy Bentham
ketchupduck
2y
10
48
Other-centered ethics and Harsanyi's Aggregation Theorem
Holden Karnofsky
10mo
11
46
New substack on utilitarian ethics: Good Thoughts
Richard Y Chappell
7mo
9