Effective Altruism

EFFECTIVE ALTRUSIM

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EFFECTIVE ALTRUSIM

Effective Altruism, and building a better QALY

effective altruism

ethics

Improving Effective Altruism metrics with a stronger quantitative foundation for the QUALY pays significant long-term dividends.

One for All and All for One

buddhism

effective altruism

ethics

open individualism

personal identity

philosophy

unity

David Pearce on closed, empty, and open individualism.

Open Individualism and Antinatalism: If God could be killed, it’d be dead already

buddhism

effective altruism

open individualism

personal identity

philosophy

unity

Philosophy of personal identity and its relevance to ethics and philosophy of time.

Logarithmic Scales of Pleasure and Pain

consciousness

effective altruism

hedonic tone

psychedelics

qualia

research

valence

Interpreting pleasure and pain scales as logarithmic compressions of a long-tail.