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S-risk
Suffering-focused ethics
Review crosspost
Axiology
Negative utilitarianism
Carl Shulman
Instrumental vs. epistemic rationality
Brian Tomasik
Evidence Action
Dispensers for Safe Water
55 posts
Population ethics
Ethics of existential risk
Repugnant conclusion
Person-affecting views
Total view
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Why I don't write as much as I used to (Brian Tomasik, 2022)
niplav
4mo
2
91
Promoting compassionate longtermism
jonleighton
13d
1
89
Introduction to Longtermism
finm
1y
13
70
A major update in our assessment of water quality interventions
GiveWell
7mo
5
64
Cause prioritization for downside-focused value systems
Lukas_Gloor
4y
10
57
Carl Shulman — How are brain mass (and neurons) distributed among humans and the major farmed land animals?
Tessa
9y
0
53
New book — "Suffering-Focused Ethics: Defense and Implications"
Magnus Vinding
2y
20
47
How can we reduce s-risks?
Tobias_Baumann
1y
3
44
Risk factors for s-risks
Tobias_Baumann
3y
3
43
EA reading list: suffering-focused ethics
richard_ngo
2y
3
42
Suffering-Focused Ethics (SFE) FAQ
EdisonY
1y
23
41
Scott Alexander – Nobody Is Perfect, Everything Is Commensurable
Tessa
8y
3
37
[Crosspost] Reducing Risks of Astronomical Suffering: A Neglected Priority
Bob Jacobs
6y
1
33
Minimalist axiologies and positive lives
Teo Ajantaival
1y
13
209
Prioritizing x-risks may require caring about future people
elifland
4mo
39
197
Critique of MacAskill’s “Is It Good to Make Happy People?”
Magnus Vinding
3mo
114
140
Avoiding the Repugnant Conclusion is not necessary for population ethics: new many-author collaboration.
deanspears
1y
16
103
Shelly Kagan - readings for Ethics and the Future seminar (spring 2021)
james
1y
7
97
Against neutrality about creating happy lives
Joe_Carlsmith
1y
38
73
Linkpost for various recent essays on suffering-focused ethics, priorities, and more
Magnus Vinding
2mo
0
73
Minimalist extended very repugnant conclusions are the least repugnant
Teo Ajantaival
1mo
0
72
Spears & Budolfson, 'Repugnant conclusions'
Pablo
1y
15
72
The person-affecting value of existential risk reduction
Gregory Lewis
4y
35
70
A longtermist critique of “The expected value of extinction risk reduction is positive”
antimonyanthony
1y
10
62
Why do you find the Repugnant Conclusion repugnant?
Will Bradshaw
1y
63
61
Confused about "making people happy" vs. "making happy people"
tobiasleenaert
5mo
46
59
What We Owe the Past
Austin
7mo
19
55
Critical summary of Meacham’s "Person-Affecting Views and Saturating Counterpart Relations"
Ardenlk
1y
31