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EA thoughts from Israel-Hamas war
Critique of MacAskills Is It Good to Make Happy People?
Methods for improving uncertainty analysis in EA cost-effectiveness models
Three tricky biases: human bias, existence bias, and happy bias
(Linkpost) Leif Wenar's The Deaths of Effective Altruism
Review and Summary of 'Moral Uncertainty'
Does any thorough discussion of moral parliaments exist?
Sortition Model of Moral Uncertainty
Thesis Summary and Open Questions: Normative Uncertainty and Information Value
A Case for Voluntary Abortion Reduction
Constructive Criticism of Moral Uncertainty (book)
Uncertainty and Wild Animal Welfare
Is Our Universe A Newcombs Paradox Simulation?
Stuart Russell Human Compatible AI Roundtable with Allan Dafoe, Rob Reich, & Marietje Schaake
Decision making under model ambiguity, moral uncertainty, and other agents with free will?
Ajeya Cotra: Implementing cause prioritisation at Open Philanthropy
Non-Consequentialist Considerations For Cause-Prioritzation Part 1
Are we as rigorous in addressing Utilitarianisms theoretical challenges as we are with its practical implications?
Consequentialism as an experimental discipline
Thought experiment: Trading off risk, intragenerational and intergenerational inequality, and fairness
The Wages of North-Atlantic Bias
Moral Considerations In Designing AI Systems
Fair Collective Effective Altruism
Reflective Equilibria and the Hunt for a Formalized Pragmatism
What should we actually do in response to moral uncertainty?
Moral uncertainty and public justification (Barret and Schmidt, 2021)
A bargaining-theoretic approach to moral uncertainty
Relative Value Functions: A Flexible New Format for Value Estimation
How much do you believe your results?
Effectiveness is a Conjunction of Multipliers
List of ways in which cost-effectiveness estimates can be misleading
Dimensions of Pain workshop: Summary and updated conclusions
Welfare Footprint Project - a blueprint for quantifying animal pain
On Child Wasting, Mega-Charities, and Measurability Bias
Comparison between the hedonic utility of human life and poultry living time
Simple comparison polling to create utility functions
Estimating value from pairwise comparisons
The price is right
The Challenges with Measuring the Impact of Lobbying
Value of Life: VSL Estimates vs Community Perspective Evaluations
Cost-effectiveness of operations management in high-impact organisations
Do people have a form or resources for capturing indirect interpersonal impacts?
How we work, #1: Cost-effectiveness is generally the most important factor in our recommendations
A peek at pairwise preference estimation in economics, marketing, and statistics
Transformative AI and Compute - Reading List
How to determine distribution parameters from quantiles
Estimating the Average Impact of an ARPA-E Grantmaker
Moral weights for various species and distributions
What is the relationship between impact and EA Forum karma?
A podcast episode exploring critiques of effective altruism (with Michael Nielsen and Ajeya Cotra)
How do inspired contributions and externalized costs factor in cost-effectiveness calculations?
Are there important things that aren't quantifiable?
When should the inverse-variance method be applied to distributions?
What reason is there NOT to accept Pascal's Wager?
How do EA Orgs Account for Uncertainty in their Analysis?
Rethink Priorities Portfolio Builder Tool
Newcomb's Paradox Explained
Gaia Network: An Illustrated Primer
Experience size
Other-centered ethics and Harsanyi's Aggregation Theorem
Some solutions to utilitarian problems
Future-proof ethics
Why do you find the Repugnant Conclusion repugnant?
How do most utilitarians feel about ""replacement"" thought experiments?
Leveling-up Impartiality
some concerns with classical utilitarianism
Beneficentric Virtue Ethics
Virtues for Real-World Utilitarians
Arguments for utilitarianism are impossibility arguments under unbounded prospects
Deontic Fictionalism
(Link) ""Average utilitarianism implies solipsistic egoism"" (Tarsney 2020)
What I believe, part 1: Utilitarianism | Sunyshore
German translation and narration of utilitarianism.net
Non-additive axiologies in large worlds
Timeline Utilitarianism
Meta-Preference Utilitarianism
Utilitarianism.net Updates
'Beneficentrism', by Richard Yetter Chappell
A Stranger Priority? Topics at the Outer Reaches of Effective Altruism (my dissertation)
The God of Humanity, and the God of the Robot Utilitarians
(Linkpost) Alexander Berger On Philanthrophic Opportunities And Normal Awesome Altruism
Ramsey and Intergenerational Welfare Economics - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Effective Altruism and Utilitarianism
Does Utilitarian Longtermism Imply Directed Panspermia?
The psychology of population ethics
Dont Balk at Animal-friendly Results
Promoting compassionate longtermism
New book: The Tango of Ethics: Intuition, Rationality and the Prevention of Suffering
Doubts about Track Record Arguments for Utilitarianism
Sensitive assumptions in longtermist modeling
Just Look At The Thing! How The Science of Consciousness Informs Ethics
Punching Utilitarians in the Face
When Utilitarianism is Actually Fun
New encyclopedia entry on utilitarianism and Christian theology
New substack on utilitarian ethics: Good Thoughts
New Guest Essays on Hedonism (Utilitarianism.net)
My (Lazy) Longtermism FAQ
Why I Hope (Certain) Hedonic Utilitarians Don't Control the Long-term Future
Virtue vs Obligation (The Caplan-Singer Debate)
Jeff Sebo: A utilitarian case for animal rights