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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
194
Killing the ants
Joe_Carlsmith
1y
13
132
Scope-sensitive ethics: capturing the core intuition motivating utilitarianism
richard_ngo
1y
19
111
Puzzles for Everyone
Richard Y Chappell
3mo
38
106
Common-sense cases where "hypothetical future people" matter
levin
4mo
21
97
Doubts about Track Record Arguments for Utilitarianism
Erich_Grunewald
10mo
16
92
Person-affecting intuitions can often be money pumped
Rohin Shah
5mo
72
88
The Strange Shortage of Moral Optimizers
Richard Y Chappell
6mo
26
86
The Possibility of an Ongoing Moral Catastrophe (Summary)
Linch
3y
11
85
New book: Moral Uncertainty by MacAskill, Ord & Bykvist
frankieaw
2y
2
73
Launching Utilitarianism.net: An Introductory Online Textbook on Utilitarianism
Darius_M
2y
27
72
On the limits of idealized values
Joe_Carlsmith
1y
9
70
What Is Moral Realism?
Lukas_Gloor
4y
26
70
Stress - effective ways to reduce it
Ben Williamson
12mo
22
68
Future-proof ethics
Holden Karnofsky
10mo
57
418
EA is about maximization, and maximization is perilous
Holden Karnofsky
3mo
56
167
Getting on a different train: can Effective Altruism avoid collapsing into absurdity?
Peter McLaughlin
2mo
60
165
Altruism as a central purpose
Joey
8mo
8
118
"Doing Good Best" isn't the EA ideal
Davidmanheim
3mo
17
115
Effective Altruism's Implicit Epistemology
Violet Hour
2mo
9
109
A full syllabus on longtermism
jtm
1y
13
108
Defining Effective Altruism
William_MacAskill
3y
22
98
What actually is the argument for effective altruism?
Benjamin_Todd
2y
29
95
On infinite ethics
Joe_Carlsmith
10mo
24
93
Effective Altruism: The First Decade (Forum Review)
Aaron Gertler
1y
47
77
Do Brains Contain Many Conscious Subsystems? If So, Should We Act Differently?
Bob Fischer
15d
7
74
What are the key ongoing debates in EA?
richard_ngo
2y
54
73
'Beneficentrism', by Richard Yetter Chappell
Pablo
7mo
12
70
Aid Scepticism and Effective Altruism
William_MacAskill
3y
13