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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
166
Killing the ants
Joe_Carlsmith
1y
13
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
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
68
High stakes instrumentalism and billionaire philanthropy
John G. Halstead
2y
10
68
Reasons and Persons: Watch theories eat themselves
Aaron Gertler
12mo
9
66
What Is Moral Realism?
Lukas_Gloor
4y
26
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
75
Future-proof ethics
Holden Karnofsky
10mo
57
68
Punching Utilitarians in the Face
AppliedDivinityStudies
5mo
30
60
Contact with reality
Joe_Carlsmith
1y
4
58
Launching Utilitarianism.net: An Introductory Online Textbook on Utilitarianism
Darius_M
2y
27
57
Stress - effective ways to reduce it
Ben Williamson
12mo
22
54
New substack on utilitarian ethics: Good Thoughts
Richard Y Chappell
7mo
9
54
Other-centered ethics and Harsanyi's Aggregation Theorem
Holden Karnofsky
10mo
11
53
Buddhism and Utilitarianism; EA vs EB
Richard Y Chappell
6mo
14
51
Harsanyi's simple “proof” of utilitarianism
Ben_West
2y
39
50
New Guest Essays on Hedonism [Utilitarianism.net]
Richard Y Chappell
3mo
5
49
Theses on Sleep
guzey
10mo
22
46
What is a neutral life like?
Jack Malde
8mo
10