Richard Y Chappell🔸

Refusing to Quantify is Refusing to Think (about trade-offs)
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2024-11-18 | +57 | 0 comments

When is Philosophy Worth Funding?
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2024-11-11 | +30 | 0 comments

Counting Costless Beneficence
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2024-11-04 | +12 | 0 comments

QB: How Much do Future Generations Matter?
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2024-10-18 | +26 | 0 comments

Richard Y Chappell's Quick takes
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2024-10-08 | +8 | 0 comments

Seeking Ripple Effects
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2024-10-08 | +66 | 0 comments

Questioning Beneficence: Four Philosophers on Effective Altruism and Doing Good
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2024-09-28 | +35 | 0 comments

Good Judgment with Numbers
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2024-09-23 | +60 | 0 comments

Utilitarianism.net Updates
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2024-09-16 | +112 | 0 comments

Explicit Ethics
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2024-08-20 | +12 | 0 comments

'Open to Debate' Singer/Crary EA debate - July 10
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2024-07-08 | +111 | 0 comments

Imperfection is OK
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2024-07-06 | +59 | 0 comments

Moral Misdirection (full post)
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2024-06-14 | +43 | 0 comments

What "Effective Altruism" Means to Me
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2024-06-14 | +57 | 0 comments

Astronomical Cake
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2024-06-05 | +60 | 0 comments

Against Tautological Motivations
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2024-06-02 | +62 | 0 comments

Beneficentric Virtue Ethics
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2024-05-16 | +36 | 0 comments

A trilogy on anti-philanthropic misdirection
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2024-04-05 | +103 | 0 comments

EA "Worldviews" Need Rethinking
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2024-03-18 | +290 | 0 comments

The Dangers of a Little Knowledge
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2024-01-02 | +30 | 0 comments

Doing Good Effectively is Unusual
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2023-12-01 | +174 | 0 comments

Confessions of a Cheeseburger Ethicist
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2023-11-17 | +33 | 0 comments

Against Conditional Beneficence
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2023-11-09 | +13 | 0 comments

Utilitarianism.net Audio
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2023-08-09 | +34 | 0 comments

Uncertain Optimizing and Opportunity Costs
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2023-08-04 | +28 | 0 comments

X-risk Agnosticism
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2023-06-08 | +34 | 0 comments

Review of Animal Liberation Now
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2023-05-23 | +81 | 0 comments

Why Not EA? [paper draft]
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2023-05-09 | +48 | 0 comments

Review of The Good It Promises, the Harm It Does
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2023-05-02 | +215 | 0 comments

The Latest NYT article on EA/SBF
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2023-02-21 | +26 | 0 comments

Deontic Fictionalism
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2023-02-17 | +37 | 0 comments

Good Thoughts (substack) 2022 review
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2022-12-30 | +21 | 0 comments

Saving Lives vs Creating Lives
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2022-12-15 | +45 | 0 comments

Reflections on Vox's "How effective altruism let SBF happen"
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2022-12-12 | +144 | 0 comments

Naïve vs Prudent Utilitarianism
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2022-11-11 | +97 | 0 comments

Consequentialism and Cluelessness
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2022-10-17 | +30 | 0 comments

Puzzles for Everyone
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2022-09-10 | +116 | 0 comments

How Useful is Utilitarianism?
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2022-09-08 | +18 | 0 comments

The Nietzschean Challenge to Effective Altruism
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2022-08-29 | +102 | 0 comments

New Guest Essays on Hedonism [Utilitarianism.net]
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2022-08-26 | +39 | 0 comments

Review of WWOTF
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2022-08-15 | +25 | 0 comments

Meat Externalities
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2022-07-11 | +80 | 0 comments

Buddhism and Utilitarianism; EA vs EB
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2022-06-23 | +54 | 0 comments

The Strange Shortage of Moral Optimizers
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2022-06-07 | +89 | 0 comments

Yglesias on EA and politics
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2022-05-23 | +79 | 0 comments

Leveling-up Impartiality
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2022-05-19 | +36 | 0 comments

New substack on utilitarian ethics: Good Thoughts
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2022-05-09 | +50 | 0 comments

Virtues for Real-World Utilitarians
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2022-04-28 | +27 | 0 comments

Philanthropy Vouchers as Systemic Change
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2019-07-11 | +12 | 0 comments

Charity Vouchers [public policy idea]
by Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2019-07-10 | +9 | 0 comments

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