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Act utilitarianism: criterion of rightness vs. decision procedure
Expected value theory is fanatical, but that's a good thing
Introduction to suffering-focused ethics
Varieties of minimalist moral views: Against absurd acts
Harsanyi's simple proof of utilitarianism
Non-utilitarian effective altruism
Is the Far Future Irrelevant for Moral Decision-Making?
Deontology, the Paralysis Argument and altruistic longtermism
Consequentialism and Cluelessness
Against the normative realist's wager
Refining My Moral Values Using Steelman Solitaire
Is anyone here a philosopher or economist working on the interpersonal comparison problem?
The Biggest Problem with Deontology: The Aggregation Problem
My Meta-Ethics and Possible Implications for EA
Safe AI and moral AI
EA is about maximization, and maximization is perilous
Reflections on Vox's ""How effective altruism let SBF happen
Complete archive of the Felicifia forum
Avoiding the Repugnant Conclusion is not necessary for population ethics: new many-author collaboration.
A full syllabus on longtermism
The Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics
Common-sense cases where ""hypothetical future people"" matter
Shelly Kagan - readings for Ethics and the Future seminar (spring 2021)
It's OK to kill and eat animals - but don't get caught slapping one.
The Strange Shortage of Moral Optimizers
Parfit + Singer + Aliens = ?
The Common Sense View on Meat Implies Some Pretty Radical Conclusions
Actually possible: thoughts on Utopia
Tyler Cowen on effective altruism (December 2022)
Consequentialists (in society) should self-modify to have side constraints
Life Satisfaction and its Discontents
Descriptive Population Ethics and Its Relevance for Cause Prioritization
The case for strong longtermism - June 2021 update
Virtue signaling is sometimes the best or the only metric we have
Philosophers speaking against the mistreatment of animals: The Montreal Declaration On Animal Exploitation
Should we be doing politics at all? Some (very rough) thoughts
Deontology and virtue ethics as ""effective theories"" of consequentialist ethics
The Repugnant Conclusion Isn't
The Narrowing Circle (Gwern)
Replace Neglectedness
It's Not Hard to Be Morally Excellent; You Just Choose Not To Be
What are the leading critiques of ""longtermism"" and related concepts
Contact with reality
Saving Lives vs Creating Lives
Laymans Summary of Resolving Pascallian Decision Problems with Stochastic Dominance
The problem with person-affecting views
The Significance, Persistence, Contingency Framework (William MacAskill, Teruji Thomas and Aron Vallinder)
Ethical offsetting is antithetical to EA
The importance of how you weigh it
EA reading list: suffering-focused ethics
Teruji Thomas, 'The Asymmetry, Uncertainty, and the Long Term'
Maybe longtermism isn't for everyone
The Alienation Objection to Consequentialism
Hilary Greaves: The collectivist critique of the EA movement
Defending the Procreation Asymmetry with Conditional Interests
Attempt at understanding the role of moral philosophy in moral progress
Utilitarianism and the replaceability of desires and attachments
The Upper Limit of Value
Moral Progress Reading List
Impartiality is not baked in to Christianity
Peter Singer on the 80K podcast
The repugnant conclusion is not a problem for the total view
EA reading list: EA motivations and psychology
Righting past wrongs by recovering past lives via simulation
What is Intersectionality Theory? What does it mean for EA?
Otherness and control in the age of AGI
Contra Appiah Defending Defending ""Climate Villains
Utilitarianism Meets Egalitarianism
Alice Redfern: Moral weights in the developing world IDinsights Beneficiary Preferences Project
Utility Cascades
An even deeper atheism
EA reading list: population ethics, infinite ethics, anthropic ethics
Tainted donations: a historical perspective from Rhodri Davies
A lateral way of thinking about Cause X: barely visible but potentially enormous categories of value
Practical ethics given moral uncertainty
Julia Galef and Matt Yglesias on bioethics and ""ethics expertise
On expected utility, part 1: Skyscrapers and madmen
Shouldn't it matter to the victim?
Giving isnt demanding*
Conditional interests, asymmetries and EA priorities
Against longtermism: a care-centric approach?
Good Thoughts (substack) 2022 review
Desire theories of welfare and nonhuman animals
Consequentialism does not endorse frauding-to-give
Wrong by Induction
The Effective Altruism Equality and Justice Project
The Vanuatu Initiative, climate litigation and the rights of future generations
Tan Zhi Xuan: AI alignment, philosophical pluralism, and the relevance of non-Western philosophy
The Harsanyi-Rawls debate: political philosophy as decision theory under uncertainty
Amanda Askell: The moral value of information
Philosophy event series introducing EA at the University of Zurich
How Useful is Utilitarianism?
Paper summary: The paralysis argument (William MacAskill and Andreas Mogensen)
List of lists of EA-related open philosophy research questions
Book review of ""Mengzi
EA reading list: utilitarianism and consciousness
In search of benevolence (or: what should you get Clippy for Christmas?)
The Possibility of an Ongoing Moral Catastrophe
Slightly advanced decision theory 102: Four reasons not to be a (naive) utility maximizer
Expected value under normative uncertainty

Act utilitarianism: criterion of rightness vs. decision procedure

Expected value theory is fanatical, but that's a good thing

Introduction to suffering-focused ethics

Varieties of minimalist moral views: Against absurd acts

Harsanyi's simple proof of utilitarianism

Non-utilitarian effective altruism

Is the Far Future Irrelevant for Moral Decision-Making?

Deontology, the Paralysis Argument and altruistic longtermism

Consequentialism and Cluelessness

Against the normative realist's wager

Refining My Moral Values Using Steelman Solitaire

Is anyone here a philosopher or economist working on the interpersonal comparison problem?

The Biggest Problem with Deontology: The Aggregation Problem

My Meta-Ethics and Possible Implications for EA

Safe AI and moral AI

EA is about maximization, and maximization is perilous

Reflections on Vox's ""How effective altruism let SBF happen

Complete archive of the Felicifia forum

Avoiding the Repugnant Conclusion is not necessary for population ethics: new many-author collaboration.

A full syllabus on longtermism

The Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics

Common-sense cases where ""hypothetical future people"" matter

Shelly Kagan - readings for Ethics and the Future seminar (spring 2021)

It's OK to kill and eat animals - but don't get caught slapping one.

The Strange Shortage of Moral Optimizers

Parfit + Singer + Aliens = ?

The Common Sense View on Meat Implies Some Pretty Radical Conclusions

Actually possible: thoughts on Utopia

Tyler Cowen on effective altruism (December 2022)

Consequentialists (in society) should self-modify to have side constraints

Life Satisfaction and its Discontents

Descriptive Population Ethics and Its Relevance for Cause Prioritization

The case for strong longtermism - June 2021 update

Virtue signaling is sometimes the best or the only metric we have

Philosophers speaking against the mistreatment of animals: The Montreal Declaration On Animal Exploitation

Should we be doing politics at all? Some (very rough) thoughts

Deontology and virtue ethics as ""effective theories"" of consequentialist ethics

The Repugnant Conclusion Isn't

The Narrowing Circle (Gwern)

Replace Neglectedness

It's Not Hard to Be Morally Excellent; You Just Choose Not To Be

What are the leading critiques of ""longtermism"" and related concepts

Contact with reality

Saving Lives vs Creating Lives

Laymans Summary of Resolving Pascallian Decision Problems with Stochastic Dominance

The problem with person-affecting views

The Significance, Persistence, Contingency Framework (William MacAskill, Teruji Thomas and Aron Vallinder)

Ethical offsetting is antithetical to EA

The importance of how you weigh it

EA reading list: suffering-focused ethics

Teruji Thomas, 'The Asymmetry, Uncertainty, and the Long Term'

Maybe longtermism isn't for everyone

The Alienation Objection to Consequentialism

Hilary Greaves: The collectivist critique of the EA movement

Defending the Procreation Asymmetry with Conditional Interests

Attempt at understanding the role of moral philosophy in moral progress

Utilitarianism and the replaceability of desires and attachments

The Upper Limit of Value

Moral Progress Reading List

Impartiality is not baked in to Christianity

Peter Singer on the 80K podcast

The repugnant conclusion is not a problem for the total view

EA reading list: EA motivations and psychology

Righting past wrongs by recovering past lives via simulation

What is Intersectionality Theory? What does it mean for EA?

Otherness and control in the age of AGI

Contra Appiah Defending Defending ""Climate Villains

Utilitarianism Meets Egalitarianism

Alice Redfern: Moral weights in the developing world IDinsights Beneficiary Preferences Project

Utility Cascades

An even deeper atheism

EA reading list: population ethics, infinite ethics, anthropic ethics

Tainted donations: a historical perspective from Rhodri Davies

A lateral way of thinking about Cause X: barely visible but potentially enormous categories of value

Practical ethics given moral uncertainty

Julia Galef and Matt Yglesias on bioethics and ""ethics expertise

On expected utility, part 1: Skyscrapers and madmen

Shouldn't it matter to the victim?

Giving isnt demanding*

Conditional interests, asymmetries and EA priorities

Against longtermism: a care-centric approach?

Good Thoughts (substack) 2022 review

Desire theories of welfare and nonhuman animals

Consequentialism does not endorse frauding-to-give

Wrong by Induction

The Effective Altruism Equality and Justice Project

The Vanuatu Initiative, climate litigation and the rights of future generations

Tan Zhi Xuan: AI alignment, philosophical pluralism, and the relevance of non-Western philosophy

The Harsanyi-Rawls debate: political philosophy as decision theory under uncertainty

Amanda Askell: The moral value of information

Philosophy event series introducing EA at the University of Zurich

How Useful is Utilitarianism?

Paper summary: The paralysis argument (William MacAskill and Andreas Mogensen)

List of lists of EA-related open philosophy research questions

Book review of ""Mengzi

EA reading list: utilitarianism and consciousness

In search of benevolence (or: what should you get Clippy for Christmas?)

The Possibility of an Ongoing Moral Catastrophe

Slightly advanced decision theory 102: Four reasons not to be a (naive) utility maximizer

Expected value under normative uncertainty