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Population ethics
Suffering-focused ethics
S-risk
Ethics of existential risk
Axiology
Negative utilitarianism
Review crosspost
Repugnant conclusion
Person-affecting views
Carl Shulman
Total view
Instrumental vs. epistemic rationality
58 posts
Education
Moral advocacy
Naive vs. sophisticated consequentialism
Consequentialism
Philosophy
Moral cooperation
Reasoning transparency
Deontology
Center for Reducing Suffering
Copenhagen Consensus Center
Reversal test
Status quo bias
229
Critique of MacAskill’s “Is It Good to Make Happy People?”
Magnus Vinding
3mo
114
153
New book — "Suffering-Focused Ethics: Defense and Implications"
Magnus Vinding
2y
20
142
A longtermist critique of “The expected value of extinction risk reduction is positive”
antimonyanthony
1y
10
141
Prioritizing x-risks may require caring about future people
elifland
4mo
39
101
Promoting compassionate longtermism
jonleighton
13d
1
97
Linkpost for various recent essays on suffering-focused ethics, priorities, and more
Magnus Vinding
2mo
0
94
A major update in our assessment of water quality interventions
GiveWell
7mo
5
88
Avoiding the Repugnant Conclusion is not necessary for population ethics: new many-author collaboration.
deanspears
1y
16
86
Suffering-Focused Ethics (SFE) FAQ
EdisonY
1y
23
85
Against neutrality about creating happy lives
Joe_Carlsmith
1y
38
80
Cause prioritization for downside-focused value systems
Lukas_Gloor
4y
10
79
Minimalist extended very repugnant conclusions are the least repugnant
Teo Ajantaival
1mo
0
79
Shelly Kagan - readings for Ethics and the Future seminar (spring 2021)
james
1y
7
71
Confused about "making people happy" vs. "making happy people"
tobiasleenaert
5mo
46
315
New book on s-risks
Tobias_Baumann
1mo
25
158
Integrity for consequentialists
Paul_Christiano
6y
19
129
You Don't Need To Justify Everything
ThomasW
6mo
11
83
Common ground for longtermists
Tobias_Baumann
2y
8
82
Reasoning Transparency
Lizka
2mo
8
81
Naïve vs Prudent Utilitarianism
Richard Y Chappell
1mo
42
69
Positive roles of life and experience in suffering-focused ethics
Teo Ajantaival
1y
1
66
Announcing “Effective Dropouts”
Yonatan Cale
3mo
21
66
Multiverse-wide cooperation in a nutshell
Lukas_Gloor
5y
11
62
Three Ways to Advance Science (Bostrom, 2008)
Will Aldred
5mo
1
61
Peacefulness, nonviolence, and experientialist minimalism
Teo Ajantaival
7mo
14
61
Deontology and virtue ethics as "effective theories" of consequentialist ethics
Jan_Kulveit
1mo
11
58
Are we neglecting education? Philosophy in schools as a longtermist area
Jack Malde
2y
29
49
Consequentialists (in society) should self-modify to have side constraints
Jack R
4mo
12