If I disagree with utilitarianism, what can you say to convince me it’s true?
Combine them all, and you get the Effective Altruism case for colonizing the future light-cone with self-replicating sentience....https://twitter.com/EPoe187/status/1060869054645366784 …
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There are also deontological and virtue-ethics cases one could make for colonizing the galaxy, but that's a long story...
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Geoffrey - I love Effective Altruism, particularly
@REGcharity, but doesn't strict utilitarianism potentially lead to collectivist outcomes? Also, have you seen anyone satisfactorily refute Nozick's critiques of utilitarianism? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_monster … -
I believe in a form of 'rule utitilitarianism' that puts heavy value of rights and freedoms as heuristics that we should try very hard not to violate.
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