Good Thoughts
Richard Y Chappell, Bentham's BulldogConsequentialist moral philosophy and analysis
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The Schmotte-and-Bailey Fallacy
The most striking thing about effective altruism, dialectically, is that it’s a neglected truism:
Moral truisms may still be widely ignored. The moral truism underlying Effective Altruism is that we have strong reasons to do more good, a...
Why I'm Optimistic about Moral Philosophy
Many people are drawn to the cynical view that we will inevitably believe whatever is most convenient or in our self-interest to believe. I think that view is far too strong: While motivated reasoning is a real phenomenon, it’s far from imp...
(When) Does Funding Corrupt?
There’s some interesting discussion on Daily Nous about an open letter urging stricter “conflict of interest” disclosures for philosophy journals, especially for authors with ties to the AI industry. Relatedly, I previous saw philosophers o...
The Train to Crazy Town
Five years ago, Ajeya Cotra memorably described Effective Altruist reasoning as a “train to crazy town”—with longtermists in particular staying on the train for longer than their nearterm-focused colleagues. It’s not a perfect metaphor, but...
Google Mosquitoes
I was excited to learn recently that Google has plans to debug Florida and California by releasing millions of “good bugs”—male mosquitos (which can’t bite or spread disease) that “have a naturally-occurring bacteria called Wolbachia which...
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