Joe Carlsmith

Karma: 3,768

Senior research analyst at Open Philanthropy. Recently completed a doctorate in philosophy at the University of Oxford. Opinions my own.

Wholehearted choices and “morality as taxes”

Joe Carlsmith23 Dec 2020 2:21 UTC

36 points

6 comments4 min readLW link

Thoughts on being mortal

Joe Carlsmith1 Jan 2021 19:17 UTC

78 points

5 comments6 min readLW link

The despair of normative realism bot

Joe Carlsmith3 Jan 2021 23:07 UTC

30 points

1 comment18 min readLW link

Grokking illusionism

Joe Carlsmith6 Jan 2021 5:50 UTC

53 points

50 comments9 min readLW link

Thoughts on personal identity

Joe Carlsmith8 Jan 2021 4:19 UTC

23 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

Shouldn’t it matter to the victim?

Joe Carlsmith11 Jan 2021 7:16 UTC

5 points

2 comments15 min readLW link

The impact merge

Joe Carlsmith13 Jan 2021 7:26 UTC

48 points

11 comments4 min readLW link

Alienation and meta-ethics (or: is it possible you should maximize helium?)

Joe Carlsmith15 Jan 2021 7:07 UTC

13 points

1 comment10 min readLW link

Actually possible: thoughts on Utopia

Joe Carlsmith18 Jan 2021 8:27 UTC

87 points

7 comments13 min readLW link

A ghost

Joe Carlsmith21 Jan 2021 7:14 UTC

16 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

On clinging

Joe Carlsmith24 Jan 2021 23:25 UTC

58 points

11 comments8 min readLW link

Believing in things you cannot see

Joe Carlsmith1 Feb 2021 7:26 UTC

20 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

Killing the ants

Joe Carlsmith7 Feb 2021 23:17 UTC

76 points

27 comments8 min readLW link 1 review

Contact with reality

Joe Carlsmith15 Feb 2021 4:53 UTC

28 points

3 comments21 min readLW link

Two types of deference

Joe Carlsmith22 Feb 2021 3:32 UTC

4 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

Subjectivism and moral authority

Joe Carlsmith1 Mar 2021 9:02 UTC

22 points

4 comments14 min readLW link

Care and demandingness

Joe Carlsmith8 Mar 2021 7:03 UTC

25 points

10 comments11 min readLW link

Against neutrality about creating happy lives

Joe Carlsmith15 Mar 2021 1:55 UTC

42 points

8 comments11 min readLW link 1 review

On future people, looking back at 21st century longtermism

Joe Carlsmith22 Mar 2021 8:23 UTC

39 points

3 comments12 min readLW link

The importance of how you weigh it

Joe Carlsmith29 Mar 2021 4:59 UTC

35 points

1 comment12 min readLW link