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Why is there so little mention of Scanlon, What We Owe to Each Other, and contractualism?
Worldview uncertainty
Summary of ""The Most Good We Can Do or the Best Person We Can Be?"" - a Critique of EA
EA criticism contest: Why I am not an effective altruist
Why I am happy to reject the possibility of infinite worlds
Time-average versus Individual-average Total Utilitarianism
As EA embraces more avenues for change, we must change our message
Ex ante prioritarianism and negative-leaning utilitarianism do not override individual interests
Solving the moral cluelessness problem with Bayesian joint probability distributions
Is there a clear writeup summarizing the arguments for why deep ecology is wrong?
Emilia Wilson: Universalised critiques of EA (lightning talk)
(CFP) NeurIPS workshop: AI meets Moral Philosophy and Moral Psychology
Jenny Xiao: Dual moral obligations and international cooperation against global catastrophic risks
(Link) Normative Implications of Reductionism about Personal Identity
Scott Alexander Axiology, Morality, Law
On expected utility, part 3: VNM, separability, and more
What are the best arguments for an exclusively hedonistic view of value?
Jonathan Courtney: Ethical obligations (lightning talk)
Hilary Greaves: Doing good together collectivism vs. coordination
Against population ethics
Is it possible, and if so how, to arrive at strong EA conclusions without the use of utilitarian principles?
Summary: Evidence, cluelessness and the long term \| Hilary Greaves
Avoiding the demandingness of total welfarism with rights-based discounted welfarism
Net value of saving a child's life from a negative utilitarian perspective?
Morality as ""Coordination"" vs ""Altruism
Can you have an egoistic preference about your own birth?
Experience Machine
List of reasons to discount the welfare of future generations
Who are the leading advocates, and what are the top publications on broad longtermism?
Just Say No to Utilitarianism
What actually is value-alignment?
Aletheism"" and ""Omnism"" as alternatives to ""Altruism
Empirical critique of EA from another direction
The Philanthropists Paradox
Jumping in Front of Bullets vs. Organ Donation
EA is Insufficiently Value Neutral in Practice
Rethink Priorities Welfare Range Estimates
Common-sense sentience is dubious
The Welfare Range Table
Announcing The New York Declaration on Animal Consciousness
Logarithmic Scales of Pleasure and Pain: Rating, Ranking, and Comparing Peak Experiences Suggest the Existence of Long Tails for Bliss and Suffering
If Adult Insects Matter, How Much Do Juveniles Matter?
Solution to the two envelopes problem for moral weights
New open letter on AI ""Include Consciousness Research
Does Sentience Legislation help animals?
Beware popular discussions of AI ""sentience
Why UFOs matter
How to Resist the Fading Qualia Argument (Andreas Mogensen)
New A Happier World video on sentientism and moral circle expansion
Some Arguments For Sentientism
Consciousness, counterfactual robustness and absurdity
Gradations of moral weight
Episode #181 - What if consciousness is an illusion? - Philosophize This!
Episode #179 - Why is consciousness something worth talking about? - Philosophize This!
Episode #180 - What if everything is consciousness? - Philosophize This!
What Is the Total Global Capability for Suffering and Joy? A Call for a Collaborative EA Project
Principles for AI Welfare Research
The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI
Octopuses (Probably) Don't Have Nine Minds
The Possibility of Microorganism Suffering
#196 The edge cases of sentience and why they matter (Jonathan Birch on The 80,000 Hours Podcast)
Michael Levin, Scientific Panpsychism and Teleology
Cerebral organoids
Evolution, Pain, Suffering, and Ed Yong
Dr. Andrew Crump on scientific research into insect sentience
BBC: 'Sentient' (?) mini-brains...
Sentientism: Improving the human epistemology and ethics baseline
BBC: Should extraterrestrial life be granted 'sentient' rights?
Sentience or Silos?
Joscha Bach on Synthetic Intelligence (annotated)
A dilemma for Maximize Expected Choiceworthiness (MEC)
Resolving moral uncertainty with randomization
Hedging against deep and moral uncertainty
The moral ambiguity of fishing on wild aquatic animal populations
On ""fringe"" ideas
Causes and Uncertainty: Rethinking Value in Expectation
Taking Uncertainty Seriously (or, Why Tools Matter)
An Introduction to the CRAFT Sequence
Ideal governance (for companies, countries and more)
(Podcast) Ajeya Cotra on worldview diversification and how big the future could be
New research on moral weights
Sequence overview: Welfare and moral weights
Some thoughts on moderation in doing good
Stanley the Uncertain (Creative Writing Contest)
SoGive's moral weights -- please take part!
Christian Tarsney on future bias and a possible solution to moral fanaticism
Why I Don't Account for Moral Uncertainty
Moral Trade, Impact Distributions and Large Worlds
Brian Tomasik Reasons to Be Nice to Other Value Systems
Update on the Global Priorities Institute's (GPI) activities
Vive la Diffrence? Structural Diversity as a Challenge for Metanormative Theories
Even Allocation Strategy under High Model Ambiguity
Normative Uncertainty and the Dependence Problem
Normative Uncertainty and Probabilistic Moral Knowledge
Sharing the World with Digital Minds
Might stopping miscarriages be a very important cause area?
Handling Moral Uncertainty with Average vs. Total Utilitarianism: One Method That Apparently Doesn't Work (But Seemed Like it Should)
Lightning talks from EA Global: San Francisco (2018)
How might we be wildly wrong?
Will MacAskill on normative uncertainty

Why is there so little mention of Scanlon, What We Owe to Each Other, and contractualism?

Worldview uncertainty

Summary of ""The Most Good We Can Do or the Best Person We Can Be?"" - a Critique of EA

EA criticism contest: Why I am not an effective altruist

Why I am happy to reject the possibility of infinite worlds

Time-average versus Individual-average Total Utilitarianism

As EA embraces more avenues for change, we must change our message

Ex ante prioritarianism and negative-leaning utilitarianism do not override individual interests

Solving the moral cluelessness problem with Bayesian joint probability distributions

Is there a clear writeup summarizing the arguments for why deep ecology is wrong?

Emilia Wilson: Universalised critiques of EA (lightning talk)

(CFP) NeurIPS workshop: AI meets Moral Philosophy and Moral Psychology

Jenny Xiao: Dual moral obligations and international cooperation against global catastrophic risks

(Link) Normative Implications of Reductionism about Personal Identity

Scott Alexander Axiology, Morality, Law

On expected utility, part 3: VNM, separability, and more

What are the best arguments for an exclusively hedonistic view of value?

Jonathan Courtney: Ethical obligations (lightning talk)

Hilary Greaves: Doing good together collectivism vs. coordination

Against population ethics

Is it possible, and if so how, to arrive at strong EA conclusions without the use of utilitarian principles?

Summary: Evidence, cluelessness and the long term | Hilary Greaves

Avoiding the demandingness of total welfarism with rights-based discounted welfarism

Net value of saving a child's life from a negative utilitarian perspective?

Morality as ""Coordination"" vs ""Altruism

Can you have an egoistic preference about your own birth?

Experience Machine

List of reasons to discount the welfare of future generations

Who are the leading advocates, and what are the top publications on broad longtermism?

Just Say No to Utilitarianism

What actually is value-alignment?

Aletheism"" and ""Omnism"" as alternatives to ""Altruism

Empirical critique of EA from another direction

The Philanthropists Paradox

Jumping in Front of Bullets vs. Organ Donation

EA is Insufficiently Value Neutral in Practice

Rethink Priorities Welfare Range Estimates

Common-sense sentience is dubious

The Welfare Range Table

Announcing The New York Declaration on Animal Consciousness

Logarithmic Scales of Pleasure and Pain: Rating, Ranking, and Comparing Peak Experiences Suggest the Existence of Long Tails for Bliss and Suffering

If Adult Insects Matter, How Much Do Juveniles Matter?

Solution to the two envelopes problem for moral weights

New open letter on AI ""Include Consciousness Research

Does Sentience Legislation help animals?

Beware popular discussions of AI ""sentience

Why UFOs matter

How to Resist the Fading Qualia Argument (Andreas Mogensen)

New A Happier World video on sentientism and moral circle expansion

Some Arguments For Sentientism

Consciousness, counterfactual robustness and absurdity

Gradations of moral weight

Episode #181 - What if consciousness is an illusion? - Philosophize This!

Episode #179 - Why is consciousness something worth talking about? - Philosophize This!

Episode #180 - What if everything is consciousness? - Philosophize This!

What Is the Total Global Capability for Suffering and Joy? A Call for a Collaborative EA Project

Principles for AI Welfare Research

The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI

Octopuses (Probably) Don't Have Nine Minds

The Possibility of Microorganism Suffering

#196 The edge cases of sentience and why they matter (Jonathan Birch on The 80,000 Hours Podcast)

Michael Levin, Scientific Panpsychism and Teleology

Cerebral organoids

Evolution, Pain, Suffering, and Ed Yong

Dr. Andrew Crump on scientific research into insect sentience

BBC: 'Sentient' (?) mini-brains...

Sentientism: Improving the human epistemology and ethics baseline

BBC: Should extraterrestrial life be granted 'sentient' rights?

Sentience or Silos?

Joscha Bach on Synthetic Intelligence (annotated)

A dilemma for Maximize Expected Choiceworthiness (MEC)

Resolving moral uncertainty with randomization

Hedging against deep and moral uncertainty

The moral ambiguity of fishing on wild aquatic animal populations

On ""fringe"" ideas

Causes and Uncertainty: Rethinking Value in Expectation

Taking Uncertainty Seriously (or, Why Tools Matter)

An Introduction to the CRAFT Sequence

Ideal governance (for companies, countries and more)

(Podcast) Ajeya Cotra on worldview diversification and how big the future could be

New research on moral weights

Sequence overview: Welfare and moral weights

Some thoughts on moderation in doing good

Stanley the Uncertain (Creative Writing Contest)

SoGive's moral weights -- please take part!

Christian Tarsney on future bias and a possible solution to moral fanaticism

Why I Don't Account for Moral Uncertainty

Moral Trade, Impact Distributions and Large Worlds

Brian Tomasik Reasons to Be Nice to Other Value Systems

Update on the Global Priorities Institute's (GPI) activities

Vive la Diffrence? Structural Diversity as a Challenge for Metanormative Theories

Even Allocation Strategy under High Model Ambiguity

Normative Uncertainty and the Dependence Problem

Normative Uncertainty and Probabilistic Moral Knowledge

Sharing the World with Digital Minds

Might stopping miscarriages be a very important cause area?

Handling Moral Uncertainty with Average vs. Total Utilitarianism: One Method That Apparently *Doesn't* Work (But Seemed Like it Should)

Lightning talks from EA Global: San Francisco (2018)

How might we be wildly wrong?

Will MacAskill on normative uncertainty