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Population Ethics
22 posts
Utilitarianism
33
Against population ethics
jasoncrawford
4mo
39
21
Please Do Fight the Hypothetical
Conor Sullivan
3mo
6
34
Debating myself on whether “extra lives lived” are as good as “deaths prevented”
HoldenKarnofsky
8mo
10
9
Is population collapse due to low birth rates a problem?
mukashi
3mo
36
58
Deminatalist Total Utilitarianism
Vanessa Kosoy
2y
56
31
Against neutrality about creating happy lives
Joe Carlsmith
1y
6
23
Example population ethics: ordered discounted utility
Stuart_Armstrong
3y
16
57
A (small) critique of total utilitarianism
Stuart_Armstrong
10y
237
16
Aging research and population ethics
emanuele ascani
3y
3
16
Two kinds of population ethics, and Current-Population Utilitarianism
AlexMennen
8y
21
2
Population Ethics Shouldn't Be About Maximizing Utility
Ghatanathoah
9y
46
80
Utilitarianism Meets Egalitarianism
Scott Garrabrant
29d
10
28
Average utilitarianism is non-local
Yair Halberstadt
1mo
12
9
Find out how utilitarian you are - a mega thread of philosophy polls
spencerg
3mo
3
79
Comparing Utilities
abramdemski
2y
31
24
Review: G.E.M. Anscombe’s “Modern Moral Philosophy”
David Gross
10mo
3
19
Dissolving the Experience Machine Objection
leogao
1y
10
12
Engaging with hypotheticals as they are defined
damiensnyder
1y
0
2
A gentle primer on caring, including in strange senses, with applications
kh
3mo
4
31
Moral differences in mediocristan
Benquo
4y
0
8
Utilitarianism Expressed in Julia
Erich_Grunewald
1y
0
10
It's hard to use utility maximization to justify creating new sentient beings
dynomight
2y
14
3
Maximize in a limited domain. Hope for the future.
Dacyn
9mo
0
1
Any Utilitarianism Makes Sense As Policy
George3d6
3mo
6
38
Embracing the "sadistic" conclusion
Stuart_Armstrong
8y
41