well, things starting is fake anyway any villain who talked about the greater good was some extent of utilitarian villain though
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Replying to @chaosprime @Tunamle and
That extends the definition of "utilitarian" wide enough to cover not only all of consequentialism but also a solid chunk of deontology, and also most of the creeping metastatic cancer that is "care" ethics
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if the greatest-good-for-the-greatest-number shoe fits
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Replying to @chaosprime @0K_ultra and
of course in my way of looking at things reducibility to utilitarianism is a lethal own, since it means you're almost certainly the repugnant conclusion's bitch
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Replying to @chaosprime @0K_ultra and
I hate on utilitarianism 'cos it represents an attempt to reduce values, preferences, & the good life to something like numbers in a formula, when in reality values are fuzzy, preferences change, and the good life emerges from a process of discovery in a community of souls.
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Replying to @PereGrimmer @chaosprime and
Anything can be reduced to a formula. The problem with utilitarianism is that the problem is underspecified so the utilitarian will have some choices to make when deciding which formula to reduce it to. They tend to choose badly.
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Replying to @reighleyc @PereGrimmer and
sometimes the time and space complexity of the formula is of the same order as the original phenomenon
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Replying to @chaosprime @PereGrimmer and
This is so, but maybe a close approximation is possible, to within a very small hedonic margin say an ice cream cone or inverse of a stubbed toe. "Those who skip dessert in Omelas"
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Replying to @reighleyc @chaosprime and
I think the calculation objection to communism applies here, but with even greater force.
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Replying to @PereGrimmer @reighleyc and
damn hayek destroyed ethics as well as communism is there anything liberalism wont corrupt?
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dammit hayekpic.twitter.com/snZuEmszIY
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Replying to @chaosprime @mutual_ayyde and
(Then he got chased by a big metal spider in the old West, as I recall.)
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