expressed in high school terms, the three major schools of ethics are: * "you're not my dad!" (deontology) * "it's better to be a jock / cheerleader than to be lame" (virtue ethics) * "mom, I REALLLLY need a car, so I can volunteer at the soup kitchen and stuff" (utilitarianism)
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Sad until you get into “how to maximize utility”, where it becomes creepy
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Consequentialism tends to be a useful way to consider what incentive structures a policy decision will create and what will happen downstream of those. Virtue Ethics is a much better personal approach. Which, ironically, is a conclusion I came to *via* utilitarianism.
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However the picture-of-a-person people come up with when you say "utilitarianism" does comfortably explain why my first sentence said "consequentialism" instead. I just happen to think those people have mis-specified/buggy utility functions, and I don't.
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