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Moral philosophy
Utilitarianism
Moral uncertainty
Metaethics
Aging research
Wellbeing
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
166
Killing the ants
Joe_Carlsmith
1y
13
131
Scope-sensitive ethics: capturing the core intuition motivating utilitarianism
richard_ngo
1y
19
125
Doubts about Track Record Arguments for Utilitarianism
Erich_Grunewald
10mo
16
121
Common-sense cases where "hypothetical future people" matter
levin
4mo
21
120
Person-affecting intuitions can often be money pumped
Rohin Shah
5mo
72
112
Puzzles for Everyone
Richard Y Chappell
3mo
38
98
The Strange Shortage of Moral Optimizers
Richard Y Chappell
6mo
26
96
New book: Moral Uncertainty by MacAskill, Ord & Bykvist
frankieaw
2y
2
82
Rhetorical Abusability is a Poor Counterargument
Cullen_OKeefe
11mo
8
82
On the limits of idealized values
Joe_Carlsmith
1y
9
75
Future-proof ethics
Holden Karnofsky
10mo
57
74
The Possibility of an Ongoing Moral Catastrophe (Summary)
Linch
3y
11
73
Virtue signaling is sometimes the best or the only metric we have
Holly_Elmore
7mo
11
71
My personal cruxes for focusing on existential risks / longtermism / anything other than just video games
MichaelA
1y
28
406
EA is about maximization, and maximization is perilous
Holden Karnofsky
3mo
56
164
Altruism as a central purpose
Joey
8mo
8
128
Getting on a different train: can Effective Altruism avoid collapsing into absurdity?
Peter McLaughlin
2mo
60
117
"Doing Good Best" isn't the EA ideal
Davidmanheim
3mo
17
114
Defining Effective Altruism
William_MacAskill
3y
22
107
What actually is the argument for effective altruism?
Benjamin_Todd
2y
29
103
Effective Altruism's Implicit Epistemology
Violet Hour
2mo
9
102
Effective Altruism: The First Decade (Forum Review)
Aaron Gertler
1y
47
97
On infinite ethics
Joe_Carlsmith
10mo
24
92
Do Brains Contain Many Conscious Subsystems? If So, Should We Act Differently?
Bob Fischer
15d
7
86
'Beneficentrism', by Richard Yetter Chappell
Pablo
7mo
12
86
A full syllabus on longtermism
jtm
1y
13
73
What are the key ongoing debates in EA?
richard_ngo
2y
54
71
Aid Scepticism and Effective Altruism
William_MacAskill
3y
13