have the utilitarian nerds at EA dared to investigate the expected net return on Cause Area: Eugenics
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Lowkey I was on the ethics debate team freashman year of college, and under the right tutelage the subject matter is surprisingly Epic and Based
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I thought it was ill conceived when I was younger but I've really come around to it
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We virtue ethicists shun eugenics. We believe only in impregnating the best women, the smartest, most and virtuous beautiful women we can find, damn the consequences!
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How does a virtue ethicist denote the ills of incest if not appealing to eugenics?
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fucking your family is simply unvirtuous our ancestors understood the ways of exogamy
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i remember smth ea/utili-rat adjacent abt gene-editting + engineering humans being Probably Good and I agree w/ 3 caveats: 1) a "meta" for human biology --> more civ fragility (by decreasing biodiversity) 2) "life is sacred" meme is good for keeping moloch at bay 3)





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my virtue ethics side is very agreeable to taking no actions that may change the human experience tho
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Only because you will likely be done having kids within the next 10 yrs
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hmmm
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