#25 - Richard Chappell: effective altruism, normativity and moral realism

Cross-post from From the Lotus World

Thanks to Salvador for this fun interview. You can click the 'transcript' button to skip ahead to whatever sections interest you. A key quote: "I personally quite like utilitarianism as well, but I do recognize that it's very controversial and I don't expect other people to necessarily agree with it, whereas I kind of do expect other people to agree with the core claims of effective altruism. I think they're much harder to reasonably reject..." - Richard Y Chappell

We dived deep into the role of our moral impulse in acting like an effective altruist, the relation between effective altruism and utilitarianism, the concept of longtermism, simplifying normativity, personhood, academic philosophy and much more!