Altruism

TagLast edit: 3 Feb 2023 14:58 UTC by Yoav Ravid

Altruism refers to actions undertaken for the concern and benefit of others at ones own expense.

“an “altruist” is someone who chooses between actions according to the criterion of others’ welfare”—Eliezer Yudkowsky

Notes on Altruism

David Gross29 Dec 2024 3:13 UTC

18 points

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On saving the world

So8res30 Jan 2014 20:00 UTC

240 points

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Scope Insensitivity

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 May 2007 2:53 UTC

386 points

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Ineffective Altruism

lsusr23 Apr 2022 22:07 UTC

87 points

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Hell is wasted on the evil

lsusr15 Apr 2021 8:52 UTC

72 points

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A critique of effective altruism

benkuhn2 Dec 2013 16:53 UTC

100 points

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Really Extreme Altruism

CronoDAS15 Mar 2009 6:51 UTC

17 points

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When Does Altruism Strengthen Altruism?

jefftk21 Jan 2024 18:50 UTC

47 points

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(www.jefftk.com)

Act of Charity

jessicata17 Nov 2018 5:19 UTC

182 points

49 comments8 min readLW link 1 review

Aggregative Principles of Social Justice

Cleo Nardo5 Jun 2024 13:44 UTC

29 points

10 comments37 min readLW link

EA Hangout Prisoners’ Dilemma

Jeffrey Ladish27 Sep 2021 23:15 UTC

55 points

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Parkinson’s Law and the Ideology of Statistics

Benquo4 Jan 2025 15:49 UTC

130 points

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(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Is Altruism Selfish?

DragonGod24 Jul 2017 7:41 UTC

2 points

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Efficient Charity: Do Unto Others...

Scott Alexander24 Dec 2010 21:26 UTC

210 points

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Circular Altruism

Eliezer Yudkowsky22 Jan 2008 18:00 UTC

91 points

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Where’s my magic sword?

lsusr27 Sep 2021 7:26 UTC

52 points

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Altruism Under Extreme Uncertainty

lsusr27 Aug 2021 6:58 UTC

37 points

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2019 AI Alignment Literature Review and Charity Comparison

Larks19 Dec 2019 3:00 UTC

130 points

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How Efficient is the Charitable Market?

lukeprog24 Aug 2013 5:57 UTC

26 points

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Shut Up and Divide?

Wei Dai9 Feb 2010 20:09 UTC

133 points

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Aggregative principles approximate utilitarian principles

Cleo Nardo12 Jun 2024 16:27 UTC

28 points

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Review of Doris, ‘The Moral Psychology Handbook’ (2010)

lukeprog26 Jun 2011 19:33 UTC

24 points

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Maximizing Your Donations via a Job

Alexei5 May 2013 23:19 UTC

177 points

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[Question] What charities can I donate to for preventing another pandemic?

calsem15 Jan 2021 4:45 UTC

1 point

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Notes on Compassion

David Gross1 Nov 2020 19:10 UTC

32 points

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5. Moral Value for Sentient Animals? Alas, Not Yet

RogerDearnaley27 Dec 2023 6:42 UTC

36 points

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Notes on Respect-for-Others

David Gross12 Nov 2020 23:33 UTC

13 points

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Notes on Kindness

David Gross3 Jul 2021 21:47 UTC

19 points

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Notes on Love

David Gross13 Jul 2022 23:35 UTC

18 points

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Coalition Dynamics as Morality

abramdemski23 Jun 2017 18:00 UTC

3 points

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The Drowning Child

Tomás B.22 Oct 2023 16:39 UTC

26 points

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Self policing for self doubt

KatjaGrace7 Nov 2019 23:10 UTC

36 points

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(meteuphoric.com)

Appraising aggregativism and utilitarianism

Cleo Nardo21 Jun 2024 23:10 UTC

29 points

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On Responsibility

silentbob21 Jan 2025 10:47 UTC

15 points

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Moral Mountains

Adam Zerner14 Dec 2023 10:40 UTC

8 points

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A Different Prisoner’s Dilemma

Serpent-Stare14 Apr 2018 15:54 UTC

9 points

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Public Choice and the Altruist’s Burden

Roko22 Jul 2010 21:34 UTC

35 points

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So you say you’re an altruist...

John_Maxwell12 Mar 2009 22:15 UTC

12 points

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Giving What We Can needs your help!

RobertWiblin29 May 2015 16:30 UTC

31 points

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Nobody Is Perfect, Everything Is Commensurable

Scott Alexander19 Dec 2014 5:00 UTC

45 points

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Heuristics and Biases in Charity

Kaj_Sotala2 Mar 2012 15:20 UTC

30 points

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Your Utility Function is Your Utility Function

David Udell6 May 2022 7:15 UTC

39 points

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Credit Cards for Giving

jefftk4 Jan 2020 23:00 UTC

13 points

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(www.jefftk.com)

Dead Aid

PhilGoetz17 Mar 2009 14:51 UTC

2 points

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Altruistic Kidney Donation

jefftk17 Jun 2012 20:02 UTC

28 points

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Great Empathy and Great Response Ability

positivesum13 Nov 2023 23:04 UTC

16 points

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(tryingtruly.substack.com)

[Linkpost] Leif Wenar’s The Deaths of Effective Altruism

Arden27 Mar 2024 19:17 UTC

8 points

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(www.wired.com)

Crises Don’t Need Your Software

GabrielExists10 May 2022 21:06 UTC

59 points

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Optionality approach to ethics

Ryo 13 Nov 2023 15:23 UTC

7 points

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Offer of collaboration and/or mentorship

Vanessa Kosoy16 May 2019 14:16 UTC

76 points

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It’s okay to be (at least a little) irrational

Kaj_Sotala12 Apr 2009 21:06 UTC

61 points

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Preserving our heritage: Building a movement and a knowledge ark for current and future generations

rnk829 Nov 2023 19:20 UTC

0 points

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Reclaiming Eddie Willers

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 13 Jul 2019 15:32 UTC

71 points

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[Question] Where should I give spare computing power, as an aspiring rationalist/altruist?

1point7point42 Apr 2020 15:31 UTC

0 points

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Research: Rescuers during the Holocaust

Martin Sustrik30 Apr 2018 6:15 UTC

123 points

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Some reservations about Singer’s child-in-the-pond argument

JonahS19 Jun 2013 23:54 UTC

46 points

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[Question] Money isn’t real. When you donate money to a charity, how does it actually help?

Dagon2 Feb 2020 17:03 UTC

15 points

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Why Don’t People Help Others More?

Peter Wildeford13 Aug 2012 23:34 UTC

54 points

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The Stamp Collector

So8res1 May 2015 23:11 UTC

67 points

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Altruism and Selfishness

Zero Contradictions9 Aug 2024 6:15 UTC

−3 points

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(thewaywardaxolotl.blogspot.com)

Inefficient Doesn’t Mean Indifferent

Zvi29 Apr 2018 11:30 UTC

39 points

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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Cognito Mentoring: An advising service for intellectually curious students

JonahS31 Dec 2013 22:03 UTC

84 points

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Matching donation fundraisers can be harmfully dishonest.

Benquo11 Nov 2016 21:05 UTC

18 points

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One Life Against the World

Eliezer Yudkowsky18 May 2007 22:06 UTC

134 points

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Deciding What Project/Org to Start: A Guide to Prioritization Research

Alexandra Bos30 Jan 2024 18:13 UTC

8 points

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Higher Purpose

Eliezer Yudkowsky23 Jan 2009 9:58 UTC

55 points

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[Question] How should I judge the impact of giving $5k to a family of three kids and two mentally ill parents?

Blake5 Dec 2022 13:42 UTC

19 points

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Y Couchinator

Alicorn18 Aug 2018 3:41 UTC

115 points

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Candy for Nets

jefftk29 Sep 2019 11:10 UTC

63 points

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(www.jefftk.com)

A gentle primer on caring, including in strange senses, with applications

Kaarel30 Aug 2022 8:05 UTC

10 points

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How hard is it for altruists to discuss going against bad equilibria?

abramdemski22 Jun 2019 3:42 UTC

46 points

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Putanumonit—Discarding empathy to save the world

Jacob Falkovich6 Oct 2016 7:03 UTC

14 points

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(putanumonit.com)

A Dialogue on Rationalist Activism

moridinamael10 Sep 2018 18:30 UTC

107 points

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Open-ended ethics of phenomena (a desiderata with universal morality)

Ryo 8 Nov 2023 20:10 UTC

1 point

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The Behavioral Economics of Welfare

Vanessa Kosoy22 Dec 2017 11:35 UTC

9 points

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Open-ended/Phenomenal Ethics (TLDR)

Ryo 9 Nov 2023 16:58 UTC

3 points

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Voluntourism

jefftk17 Dec 2019 0:40 UTC

17 points

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(www.jefftk.com)

Killing the ants

Joe Carlsmith7 Feb 2021 23:17 UTC

77 points

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Politics as Charity

CarlShulman23 Sep 2010 5:33 UTC

37 points

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SunPJ in Alenia

FlorianH25 Jun 2022 19:39 UTC

9 points

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(plausiblestuff.com)

“Can’t Say No” Spending

Eliezer Yudkowsky18 Oct 2007 2:08 UTC

32 points

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Effective Empathy

Thac011 Jul 2024 15:14 UTC

4 points

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Free Tutoring in Math/Programming

Patrick29 Sep 2011 13:45 UTC

93 points

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A Bias Against Altruism

Lone Pine23 Jul 2022 20:44 UTC

58 points

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Collective Apathy and the Internet

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Apr 2009 0:02 UTC

55 points

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[Link] Reddit, help me find some peace I’m dying young

[deleted]18 Aug 2012 15:17 UTC

29 points

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