“‘Ethics’ Tag”,2019-04-01
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philosophy/ethics, most recent first: 2 related tags, 284 annotations, & 70 links (parent).
- See Also
- Gwern
- “The Diamond Earrings”, 2023
- “Timecrimes: Time Travel In Hell”, 2023
- “Inverse P-Zombies: the Other Direction in the Hard Problem of Consciousness”, 2011
- “Umineko: The Hopium Of The Magics”, 2018
- “Reasons of State: Why Didn’t Denmark Sell Greenland?”, 2011
- “The Narrowing Circle”, 2012
- “An Abortion Dialogue”, 2008
- “The Morality of Sperm Donation”, 2012
- “LWer Effective Altruism Donations, 2013–2014”, 2015
- “Long Bets As Charitable Giving Opportunity”, 2017
- “Terrorism Is Not Effective”, 2009
- “Charity Is Not about Helping”, 2011
- “Girl Scouts & Good Corporate Governance”, 2011
- “Insert, Abort, Retry?”, 2012
- “Immoral Books”, 2010
- “On Justifications”, 2008
- Links
- “Imperfect Parfit”, 2024
- “What Do Animals Understand About Death?”
- “Richard A. Cash, Who Saved Millions From Dehydration, Dies at 83”
- “The Economic Way of Thinking in a Pandemic”, 2024
- “The Dark Triad of Personality and Folk Intuitions about Free Will and Moral Responsibility”, 2023
- “The Influence of Philosophical Training on the Evaluation of Philosophical Cases: a Controlled Longitudinal Study”, et al 2023
- “A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Relationship between Economic Inequality and Prosocial Behavior”, 2023c
- “The Vanishing Family: They All Have a 50-50 Chance of Inheriting a Cruel Genetic Mutation—Which Means Disappearing into Dementia in Middle Age. This Is the Story of What It’s like to Live With Those Odds”, 2023
- “Let’s Do a Thought Experiment: Using Counterfactuals to Improve Moral Reasoning”, et al 2023
- “Harm Hypervigilance in Public Reactions to Scientific Evidence”, et al 2023
- “Schrödinger’s Categories: The Indeterminacy of Folk Metaethics”, 2023
- “Business-Size Bias in Moral Concern: People Are More Dishonest Against Big Than Small Organizations”, et al 2023
- “Worth the Risk? Greater Acceptance of Instrumental Harm Befalling Men Than Women”, et al 2023
- “Monetizing the Externalities of Animal Agriculture: Insights from an Inclusive Welfare Function”, Kuruc & 2023
- “The Influence of Affluence on Prosocial Behavior”, et al 2023
- “Gene-Edited Hens May End Cull of Billions of Chicks”, 2022
- “Woman Who Can Smell Parkinson’s Helps Scientists Develop New Test for Condition—Joy Milne, 72, Who Lives in Scotland Has Been Dubbed ’the Woman Who Can Smell Parkinson’s”, 2022
- “Asymmetrical Genetic Attributions for the Presence and Absence of Health Problems”, et al 2022
- “Permitting Immoral Behavior: A Generalized Compensation Belief Hypothesis”, et al 2022g
- “Losing Sight of Piecemeal Progress: People Lump and Dismiss Improvement Efforts That Fall Short of Categorical Change—Despite Improving”, 2022
- “The Moralization of Effort”, et al 2022
- “Testing Heritability of Moral Foundations: Common Pathway Models Support Strong Heritability for the Five Moral Foundations”, 2022
- “A Systematic Review of Human Challenge Trials, Designs, and Safety”, Adams- et al 2022
- “Perturbation of Right Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex Makes Power Holders Less Resistant to Tempting Bribes”, et al 2022c
- “Many Heads Are More Utilitarian Than One”, et al 2022
- “The Human Black-Box: The Illusion of Understanding Human Better Than Algorithmic Decision-Making”, et al 2022
- “Elite Capture of Foreign Aid: Evidence from Offshore Bank Accounts”, et al 2022
- “Can Schools Change Religious Attitudes? Evidence from German State Reforms of Compulsory Religious Education”, et al 2022 (page 3)
- “Replication Crisis and Placebo Studies: Rebooting the Bioethical Debate”, et al 2022
- “DREAM: Uncovering Mental Models behind Language Models”, et al 2021
- “Laser Ablation of Human Guilt”, et al 2021
- “Children Are Unsuspecting Meat Eaters: An Opportunity to Address Climate Change”, et al 2021
- “The Search for Predictable Moral Partners: Predictability and Moral (character) Preferences”, et al 2021
- “What Was the Point of Equality?”, 2021
- “Beauty Goes Down to the Core: Attractiveness Biases Moral Character Attributions”, et al 2021
- “Can Machines Learn Morality? The Delphi Experiment”, et al 2021
- “Why Empathy Is Not a Reliable Source of Information in Moral Decision Making”, 2021
- “Animal Minds, Social Change, and the Future of Fisheries Science”, 2021
- “If Giving Money to the Red Cross Increases Well-Being, Does Taking Money from the Red Cross Increase Ill-Being?—Evidence from Three Experiments”, 2021
- “Embryo Screening for Polygenic Disease Risk: Recent Advances and Ethical Considerations”, et al 2021
- “The Psychology of (In)Effective Altruism”, et al 2021
- “A Soul’s View of the Optimal Population Problem”, 2021
- “Moral Disciplining: the Cognitive and Evolutionary Foundations of Puritanical Morality”, et al 2021
- “Maybe Favors: How to Get More Good Deeds Done”, et al 2021
- “John Locke As a Reader of Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan: A New Manuscript”, 2021
- “An Experimental Test of Fundraising Appeals Targeting Donor and Recipient Benefits”, et al 2021
- “Language Models Have a Moral Dimension”, et al 2021
- “Meta-Analysis on Belief in Free Will Manipulations”, et al 2021
- “Re-Defending Feline Liberty: a Response to Fischer”, 2021
- “Broad Cross-National Public Support for Accelerated COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Designs”, et al 2021
- “Biotechnology Research Viewed With Caution Globally, but Most Support Gene Editing for Babies To Treat Disease: Majorities across Global Publics Accept Evolution; Religion Factors Prominently in Belief”, et al 2020
- “Why We Fight Over Fiction”, 2020
- “Sex Differences in Moral Judgements across 67 Countries”, Atari et al 2020
- “Millions of Animals May Be Missing from Scientific Studies”, 2020
- “Animal Welfare: Antispeciesism, Veganism and a ‘Life worth Living’”, 2020
- “Publication Rate in Preclinical Research: a Plea for Preregistration”, et al 2020
- “Evaluating Use Cases for Human Challenge Trials in Accelerating SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Development”, et al 2020
- “Thrones Wreathed in Shadow: Tacitus and the Psychology of Authoritarianism”, 2020
- “Aversion towards Simple Broken Patterns Predicts Moral Judgment”, et al 2020
- “Animal Ethics and Evolutionary Psychology—10 Ideas”, 2020
- “Keep Your Cats Indoors: a Reply to Abbate”, 2020
- “An Attempt at Explaining, Blaming, and Being Very Slightly Sympathetic Toward Enron”, 2020
- “Against Dog Ownership”, 2020
- “Book Review: Hoover [Review of Whyte’s Hoover: An Extraordinary Life In Extraordinary Times]”, 2020
- “‘It’s Just Everywhere Already’: How Delays in Testing Set Back the US Coronavirus Response: A Series of Missed Chances by the Federal Government to Ensure More Widespread Testing Came during the Early Days of the Outbreak, When Containment Would Have Been Easier”, 2020
- “Should We Sacrifice the Utilitarians First?”, 2020
- “Cognitive Enhancement and Network Effects: How Individual Prosperity Depends on Group Traits”, 2020
- “Cryonics for All?”, 2020
- “The Phantom’s Pain—A Metal Gear Solid V Narrative Analysis”, 2020
- “The Institutional Foundations of Religious Politics: Evidence from Indonesia”, et al 2019
- “Learning Norms from Stories: A Prior for Value Aligned Agents”, et al 2019
- “Analysis of Official Deceased Organ Donation Data Casts Doubt on the Credibility of China’s Organ Transplant Reform”, et al 2019
- “Peep Show—The Most Realistic Portrayal of Evil Ever Made”, 2019
- “A Defense of Free-Roaming Cats from a Hedonist Account of Feline Well-Being”, 2019
- “A Mulching Proposal”, et al 2019
- “Moral Permissibility of Action Plans”, et al 2019
- “The New Epidemic—My Experience of Losing a Friend to Heroin”, 2019
- “Killing Rabbits”, 2019
- “Reflections on China’s Stalinist Heritage II: Just How Totalitarian Is Modern China?”, 2019
- “Notes on Nggwal”, 2019
- “Radical Results: Gitcoin’s $25K Match—Results and Lessons Learned from Our First $25K in Matching”, 2019
- “Gitcoin Grants: CLR Matching—Matching Contributions With up to $25,000 in Funding, in ETH”, 2019
- “Reflections on China’s Stalinist Heritage I: A Tyrant’s Toolkit”, 2019
- “Subsidizing PGD: The Moral Case for Funding Genetic Selection”, et al 2019
- “Frequently Overlooked Realistic Moral Bioenhancement Interventions”, 2019
- “Asymmetrical Genetic Attributions for Prosocial versus Antisocial Behavior”, et al 2019
- “Ideological Differences in the Expanse of the Moral Circle”, et al 2019
- “The Psychology of Existential Risk: Moral Judgments about Human Extinction”, et al 2019
- “Hillbilly Elegy—The Culture of White American Poverty”, 2018
- “The High Abortion Cost of Human Reproduction”, 2018
- “Vengeance As Justice: Passages I Highlighted in My Copy of Eye for an Eye”, 2018
- “Islam and Economic Performance: Historical and Contemporary Links”, 2018
- “Nozick’s Experience Machine: An Empirical Study”, 2017
- “Relating Pattern Deviancy Aversion to Stigma and Prejudice”, et al 2017
- “We Don’t Want to Know What Will Kill Us: Years of Data on Genetic Testing Reveal That When given the Option, Most People Want Less Information, Not More”, 2017
- “Willpower Satisficing”, 2017
- “Everything Is Worse in China”, 2017
- “Genetic Predisposition to Obesity and Medicare Expenditures”, et al 2017
- “Experimental Studies on the Psychology of Property Rights”, 2017
- “Men of Honor, Men of Interest”, 2016
- “Doing vs. Allowing Harm”, Howard-2016
- “Switching Away from Utilitarianism: The Limited Role of Utility Calculations in Moral Judgment”, 2016
- “Toward a Naturalistic Theory of Moral Progress”, 2016
- “101 Weird Writers #39: James Tiptree Junior”
- “The Unilateralist’s Curse and the Case for a Principle of Conformity”, et al 2016
- “Discontinuation and Nonpublication of Randomized Clinical Trials Conducted in Children”
- “Legal Roots of Authoritarian Rule in the Middle East: Civic Legacies of the Islamic Waqf”, 2016
- “Good Ventures: The Power of Informed Decisions”, Arrillaga-2015
- “Unsong § Interlude ט: The General Assembly”, 2015
- “The Most Predictable Disaster in the History of the Human Race: This Is What Bill Gates Is Afraid Of”, 2015
- “Do Artificial Reinforcement-Learning Agents Matter Morally?”, 2014
- “Meditations on Maoism—Ye Fu’s Hard Road Home”, 2014
- “Use of Placebo Controls in the Evaluation of Surgery: Systematic Review”, 2014
- “Are You Morally Modified?: The Moral Effects of Widely Used Pharmaceuticals”, et al 2014
- “Aztec Political Thought”, 2013
- “Water Cannot Return”, 2013
- “Seeing Life In the Distance”, 2013
- “Who By Very Slow Decay”, 2013
- “Refrigerator Safety Study: Case Study Analysis”, 2013
- “The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth: An Empirical Investigation”, 2013
- “The Strategic Consequences of Chinese Racism: A Strategic Asymmetry for the United States”, 2013
- “Doing Enough”
- “The Fallacy of Human Freedom; Review [John Gray, The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013), 288 Pp]”, 2013
- “The Whispering Earring”, 2012
- “Metamagical Themas: Sanity and Survival”, 2012
- “Self-Experimentation and Its Role in Medical Research”, 2012
- “Outing the It That Thinks: The Collapse of an Intellectual Ecosystem”, 2011
- “Bugs and Beasts Before the Law”, 2011
- “Is Empathy Necessary for Morality?”, 2011
- “The Optimal Taxation of Height: A Case Study of Utilitarian Income Redistribution”, 2010
- “Robots Should Be Slaves”, 2010
- “Stuff § Colonoscopy”, 2009
- “The Disadvantage of a Good Reputation: Disney As a Target for Social Problems Claims”, 2009
- “Male Rape and Human Rights”, 2009
- “Buddhist Animal Release Practices: Historic, Environmental, Public Health And Economic Concerns”, 2008
- “Anesthetizing the Public Conscience: Lethal Injection and Animal Euthanasia”, 2008
- “Two Arms and a Head: The Death of a Newly Paraplegic Philosopher”, 2008
- “Yes, Jolonah, There Is a Hell”, 2008
- “A Rule Against Perpetuities For The 21st Century”, 2007
- “Damage to the Prefrontal Cortex Increases Utilitarian Moral Judgements”, et al 2007
- “A Good List”, 2006
- Good and Real: Demystifying Paradoxes from Physics to Ethics, 2006
- “The Paradox Of Beneficial Retirement”, 2005
- “Forbidden Knowledge”, et al 2005
- “Jeremy Bentham on Slavery and the Slave Trade”, 2005
- “Incest Laws and Absent Taboos in Roman Egypt”, 2005
- “Consider the Lobster: For 56 Years, the Maine Lobster Festival Has Been Drawing Crowds With the Promise of Sun, Fun, and Fine Food. One Visitor Would Argue That the Celebration Involves a Whole Lot More”, 2004
- “A Defense of Cannibalism”, 2004
- “The Psychologist Who Empathized With Rats: James Tiptree Junior As Alice B. Sheldon, PhD”, 2004
- “Thinking the Unthinkable: Sacred Values and Taboo Cognitions”, 2003
- “Genetic Manipulation in Humans As a Matter of Rawlsian Justice”, 2001
- “Cornucopia: The Pace of Economic Growth in the 20th Century”, 2000
- “Parachuting for Charity: Is It worth the Money? A 5-Year Audit of Parachute Injuries in Tayside and the Cost to the NHS”, et al 1999
- “The Simple Desire-Fulfillment Theory”
- “Controlled Trials: the 1948 Watershed”, 1998
- “Who Is Arguing About the Cat? Moral Action and Enlightenment According to Dōgen”, 1997
- “Buddhism and Ecology: The Interconnection of Dharma and Deeds”, 1997
- “Superhumanism: According to Hans Moravec § On the Inevitability & Desirability of Human Extinction”, 1995
- “Medieval Monogamy”, 1995
- “The Irrelevance of the Medical Model of Mental Illness to Law and Ethics”, 1994
- “Pigs and Guinea Pigs: A Note on the Ethics of Animal Exploitation”, 1992
- “A Proposal to Classify Happiness As a Psychiatric Disorder”, 1992
- “The Kingfisher”, 1990
- “Of a Happy Life: Book 3”, 1990
- “Leaving the Bomb Project: A Nuclear Physicist Responsible for Helping Design the Atomic Bomb Tells for the First Time Why He Decided to Leave Los Alamos in 1944”, 1985
- “Effectiveness of Measures to Prevent Unintentional Deaths of Infants and Children from Suffocation and Strangulation”, 1985
- “A Conversation With Jeanne”, 1984
- “Putting Cruelty First”, 1982
- Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error: Ch2, the domus, 1978
- “In Praise of Self-Deprecation”, 1976
- “Behavior Of Young Children Under Conditions Simulating Entrapment In Refrigerators”, et al 1958
- “The Wish Never To Have Been Born”, 1932
- “Nietzsche and Bizet”, 1925
- “On the Part Played by Philosophy in the Progress of Man”, 1920
- “Thomas Jefferson to Isaac McPherson, 13 August 1813”, 1813
- “Some Unattractive Meta-Ethical Positions, Free to a Good Home”
- “The Making of Final Fantasy VII”
- “Sébastien Moro on the Most Insane Things Fish Can Do”, 2024
- “Aztec Moral Philosophy Didn’t Expect Anyone to Be a Saint”
- “The Moral Question That Stanford Asks Its Bioengineering Students”
- “The Ethics of Reward Shaping”
- “After Century of Removing Appendixes, Docs Find Antibiotics Can Be Enough: In a Five-Year Follow-Up, Nearly Two-Thirds of Patients Never Needed Surgery”
- “The High Cost of Not Doing Experiments”
- “A Good Volunteer Is Hard to Find”
- “Adventures in the Assessment of Animal Speed and Morality”
- “CBD in Colorado: Seeking a Marijuana Miracle”
- “Two Concrete Ways to Help Feeder Rodents”
- “Ultra-Near-Termism: Literally An Idea Whose Time Has Come”
- “1972 Talk at CERN on Scientific Research”, 2024
- “The Importance of Wild-Animal Suffering”
- “How Big a Deal Was the Industrial Revolution?”
- “The Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART) Represents More Than 85% of the Assisted Reproduction Industry. SART Requires That Its Members Work Only With Agencies That Limit Compensation to Egg-Donors to around $5,000 or a Maximum of $10,000 (figures Decided upon by the Ethics Committee of an Affiliated Organization, The American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM)). In Other Words, ASRM-SART Acts As a Buyer’s Cartel.”
- “Hacking the Holocaust. Remembering the Data Pirates, Forgers”, 2024
- “Rob Wiblin Interviews Tyler on Stubborn Attachments (BONUS)”
- “99 2017 Was A Great Year”, 2024
- “Front Matter Human Genome Editing: Science, Ethics, and Governance”
- “Philosophical Disquisitions: The Reversal Test and Status Quo Bias”
- “Legalism in Chinese Philosophy”
- “Mohism”
- “Moral Anti-Realism”
- “Probability in Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy”
- “The Right Not to Know: When Ignorance Is Bliss but Deadly”
- “The Reaction to the Harper’s Letter on Cancel Culture Proves Why It Was Necessary: I Was One of the 153 Signers and Am a Veteran of the Twitter Wars. But Even I Was Taken Aback by the Swift, Virulent Response.”
- “Is There Suffering in Fundamental Physics?”
- “Redirecting The Scholar’s Stage”
- “On the Science and Ethics of Ebola Treatments”
- “Volunteers: Nonprofits Really Want Their Money, Not Their Bodies”
- “Newtonian Ethics”
- “Meditations on Moloch”
- “Vegetarianism for Meat-Eaters”
- “Book Review: House of God”
- “Fear And Loathing At Effective Altruism 2017”
- “My IRB Nightmare”
- “Samsara”
- “Another Empty, Lifeless Planet Found”
- “The Sound of Evil”
- “6-Year-Old Stares Down Bottomless Abyss Of Formal Schooling”
- “Millions and Millions Dead”
- “Study: Wolf Attacks Still Leading Cause Of Death In U.S.”
- “Trope: ‘Kick the Dog’”, T2024
- “‘Ethics’ Is Advertising”
- “After 92 Years, Millionaire Miser’s Heirs Finally Split $100M”
- “The Great Penguin Sweater Fiasco”
- “A Walking Time Bomb? The Trouble With Ira Glass’s Dog, Piney”
- “‘Stubborn Attachments’: Full Text – Stubborn Attachments – Medium”
- “Back in the USSR: What Life Was like in the Soviet Union”
- “Raising Welfare for Lab Rodents”
- “Your Book Review: Dominion [Animal Rights]”
- “Your Book Review: Two Arms and a Head”
- “Extracts from Hyperion: Oceanus”
- “Why Insects Are More Sensitive Than They Seem”
- “The Government Has Fiercely Decried a Shenzhen Scientist’s Gene Editing, in Contrast to Its Push past Ethical Barriers in AI”
- “Picking Embryos With Best Health Odds Sparks New DNA Debate: Science Could Allow Parents to Select for Taller, Smarter Kids; It’s Just Another Way of Preventing Disease”
- “Storm Over Biology”
- “Does Power Really Corrupt?”
- “Speaking Freely: Ada Palmer”
- “Machiavelli V: Why We Keep Asking ‘Was Machiavelli an Atheist?’”
- “Suicide of the Liberals”, 2024
- “Child Expert Grants Dying Boy’s Wish to Have Sex”
- “Trust Issues”
- “Humans Are Utility Monsters”
- “Mike Darwin on Animal Research, Moral Cowardice, and Reasoning in an Uncaring Universe”
- “Nonprofit Boards Are Weird”, 2024
- “Not By Empathy Alone”
- “China’s Bid to Be a DNA Superpower: First China Conquered DNA Sequencing. Now It Wants to Dominate Precision Medicine Too”
- “How To Be Good”
- “Last Call”
- “Spalding Gray’s Catastrophe”
- “Killing Animals at the Zoo”
- “The Comforting Fictions of Dementia Care”
- “The Ethics of Bloodless Medicine”
- “The Joys And Ethics Of Insect Eating”
- “She Told the Family of a Severely Disabled Man That She Could Help Him to Communicate With the outside World. The Relationship That Followed Would Lead to a Criminal Trial.”
- “Should Parents of Children With Severe Disabilities Be Allowed to Stop Their Growth?”
- “Human Gene Editing Receives Science Panel’s Support”
- “The Struggle to Build a Massive ‘Biobank’ of Patient Data”
- “Some Case Studies in Early Field Growth”
- “Ancestor Worship Is Efficient”
- “Covert Virtue – the Signal That Doesn’t Bark?”
- “Let Us Give To Future”
- “Parable of the Multiplier Hole”
- “Under the Rule of Amida Buddha”
- “Expected Value without Expecting Value”
- “We Laughed at the Republican Busybody Who Couldn’t Joke, Declared War on Dirty Paintings, and Peered through Your Bedroom Window. Now That Person Has Switched Sides, and Nobody’s Laughing”
- “The American Press Is Destroying Itself”
- “Living like a Dead Man”
- “The Colossal Government Failure That Obstructed a Potentially Major Medical Breakthrough”
- “Genetic Testing of Embryos Is Creating an Ethical Morass”
- “A Doctor and Medical Ethicist Argues Life After 75 Is Not worth Living”
- “Why Is Russia So Homophobic?”
- “The Force That Drives the Flower”
- “When Your Child Is a Psychopath”
- “Do Animals Have Feelings?”
- “Why Do Republican Leaders Continue to Enable Trump”
- “Fighting for My Son With Cystic Fibrosis”
- “Do Elephants Have Souls?”
- “This American Life #480 § 3. Animal Sacrifice”, 2024
- “Barbra Streisand Is Not Alone. At a South Korean Laboratory, an Once-Disgraced Doctor Is Replicating Hundreds of Deceased Pets for the Rich and Famous. It’s Made for More Than a Few Questions of Bioethics.”
- “Plant-Based Meat like Beyond and Impossible Burgers Get Their Beefy Taste from Flavorists”
- “Fatal Distraction: Forgetting a Child in the Backseat of a Car Is a Horrifying Mistake. Is It a Crime?”
- “Discounts, Guarantees and the Search for ‘Good’ Genes: The Booming Fertility Business”
- “A New Age of Genetic Screening Is Coming—And We Don’t Have Any Rules for It: New ‘Polygenic’ Screening Techniques Open a Pandora’s Box of Ethical Issues”
- “Even China Roundly Condemns Editing the Genes of Babies”
- “Wirehead Hedonism versus Paradise-Engineering”
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