by avatarjoindate
- (source) Mon Jul 02, 2012 11:19 pm
- (source) Denison University
- (source) peterhurford
- (source) Currently a transhumanist Fun-maximizing aggregate total act utilitarian (with nonhuman animal welfare). Meta-ethically, I'm a contextualist and an eliminativist.
GivingWhatWeCan and 80,000 Hours member.
My blog: http://www.greatplay.net - (source) Contextualist | Eliminativist | Transhumanist | Fun-theorist | Utilitarian | GivingWhatWeCan | 80,000 Hours | Blogger | Vegetarian | Donor
Ruling Felicifia with an iron fist since 2012. - (source) Ruling Felicifia with an iron fist since 2012.
Personal Site: www.peterhurford.com
Blogging my utilitarian lifestyle: Everyday Utilitarian
Direct Influencer Scoreboard: 2 Meatless Monday-ers, 1 Vegetarian, and 1 Giving What We Can Member. - (source) Felicifia Head Admin | Ruling Felicifia with an iron fist since 2012.
Personal Site: www.peterhurford.com
Utilitarian Blog: Everyday Utilitarian
Direct Influencer Scoreboard: 2 Meatless Monday-ers, 1 Vegetarian, and 2 Giving What We Can 10% pledges.
- Hey, and Such
- Peter's Utilitarian Life Planning Thread
- Open Problems in Utilitarianism
- r/Utilitarianism
- Animal Welfare Section
- Eliezer Yudkowsky on the Repugnant Conclusion
- Yudkowsky's Lifespan Dilemma
- Molly the Mathematician: Thought Experiment
- The Robin Hood Dilemma
- Hello, Administrator Here, How Can I Maximize Your Utility?
- All Your Favorite EA Orgs are Recruiting!
- Why Are Some Utilitarians Not Also Effective Altruists?
- What Would You Do If You Were an Anti-Utilitarian?
- Where Should My Money Go? (Revisited)
- GiveWell's New Top Charities (And Proposed Split!)
- Taking Action Against Potential Spam
- Discussion of "LessWrong on Felicifia" on LessWrong
- In Impact, The Future Matters More
- Questions for Moral Realists
- Does EAA Have Room for More Funding?
- Help me name my website
- My New Blog: Everyday Utilitarian
- The Case for Vegan Outreach, Now On LessWrong
- Giving Now Currently Seems to Beat Giving Later
- Peter's Strategic Plan
- Initial Thoughts on Personally Finding a High-Impact Career
- College Student Philanthropy and Funding Millenium Villages
- Debate Between Peter Hurford and Alonzo Fyfe
- I'm planning on saving instead of donating. Thoughts?
- Felicifia Is No Longer Accepting New Users
- Recommended reading on consequentialism (#p8401)
- An even more ambitious pledge (#p5806, #p5917)
- Donate vs. Invest (#p6295, #p6300, #p6394)
- The poor meat eater problem (#p6791, #p6817, #p6825, #p6832, #p6838, #p6877, #p6896, #p7136, #p7186, #p7258, #p7275, #p7290, #p7298, #p7309, #p8016, #p8083, #p8192, #p8204, #p8206)
- Utilitarian careers? (#p6631, #p6633)
- Lobby group for wild animal suffering? (#p7156)
- You shouldn't be a veg*n. (#p5780, #p5840, #p5857, #p5862)
- Sam Harris: not a utilitarian (#p5993)
- Wiki Felicifia (#p8029)
- lucky me (#p9547)
- facebook, social networks. etc? (#p6563)
- Utilitarian cartoon of the week (#p6002, #p6099, #p6105, #p6446)
- Who am I? (#p7237, #p7283)
- Preventing Antisocial Personality Disorder (#p8155, #p8164)
- Evaluating animal-welfare charities' effectiveness (#p6786)
- Utilitronium shockwave (#p5920, #p5996, #p5997, #p6101, #p6123, #p6160, #p6172, #p6176, #p6178, #p6182)
- Pleasure mechanisms of the brain (#p6042)
- Cognitive bias question (#p5802)
- Moral realism vs. anti-realism (#p5876, #p5921, #p6052, #p6059)
- Why people give to developing-world charities (#p5841, #p5844, #p5878, #p5879, #p5897, #p5940, #p5943, #p5992, #p6017)
- 'Like' button for Felicifia (#p5864, #p5868, #p5873)
- 2012 US Presidential Elections and Antispeciesism (#p6110)
- Hey, and Such (#p5750, #p5777)
- Suggested list of readings for utilitarian landing page (#p5776)
- Gene selection as a utilitarian tool? (#p6001)
- Change to Alan Dawrst's user name (#p5817, #p5851)
- Hello (#p5822)
- Goals (#p5994, #p6011)
- Free will does not exist (#p5823, #p5825, #p5839, #p6122, #p6128, #p6131, #p6138, #p6143, #p6146, #p6153, #p6173, #p6177, #p6181, #p6184, #p6188, #p6260)
- Peter's Utilitarian Life Planning Thread (#p5877, #p6005, #p6006, #p6007, #p6008, #p6102)
- Saying hi, finally (#p5893, #p5919)
- Hello There! (#p5898, #p5991)
- Open Problems in Utilitarianism (#p5938, #p5939)
- Survivalism-Utilitarianism (#p5995, #p6100)
- What are your biggest questions about doing good? (#p6000)
- r/Utilitarianism (#p6016, #p6028, #p6125)
- Animal Welfare Section (#p6062)
- Sam Harris (and Bentham, et al) missed a crucial next step (#p6069, #p6071)
- Eliezer Yudkowsky on the Repugnant Conclusion (#p6067)
- Yudkowsky's Lifespan Dilemma (#p6068)
- The faulty concept of "rights" poisons utilitarianism (#p6151, #p6305, #p6320)
- Molly the Mathematician: Thought Experiment (#p6162, #p6202, #p6216, #p6230, #p6235, #p6249, #p6261, #p7606, #p7608, #p7639, #p7646)
- Mars Curiosity (#p6203, #p6210)
- Utilitarianism and Phobias: A Thought Experiment (#p6240, #p6250, #p6268, #p8034)
- Helping Along "Shallow" Utilitarians (#p6241, #p6708, #p6790, #p6891, #p7043)
- David Benatar, "Better Never to Have Been" (#p6291, #p6892, #p6910, #p9362, #p9366)
- Priority queues, not todo lists (#p6299)
- David Pearce's latest essay: "A welfare state for elephants" (#p6455, #p6460, #p6486)
- Are humans more benevolent or malevolent? (#p9389)
- many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics (#p6419)
- Existential Risk (#p6437, #p6439, #p6442)
- Worse than the Holocaust? (#p6525, #p6613, #p7259)
- My opinion on the future of social change: (#p6467)
- Global Catastrophic Risk Institute (#p6514, #p6515)
- Site slowdown (#p6532)
- Less Wrong on Utilitarianism (#p6537, #p6543)
- brand spankin' new (#p6552)
- Bad News For Bed Nets? (#p6589, #p6663)
- Arguments for and against Utilitarianism? (#p6562, #p6647, #p6653, #p6675, #p6717)
- Drawing my adminsitrative role at Felicifia to a close (#p6572, #p6575, #p6579, #p6582)
- Swedish vegan transhumanist, present! (#p6617, #p6629)
- New Administrator (#p6626, #p6702, #p6705, #p6718)
- The Robin Hood Dilemma (#p6654, #p6670, #p6689, #p6911)
- Saluton! (#p6706, #p6734)
- Hello, Administrator Here, How Can I Maximize Your Utility? (#p6688)
- Other Ethics Forums? (#p6713, #p6759, #p6765, #p6787)
- Utilitarianism, Demandingness, and Fun (#p6737, #p6764, #p6793, #p6808)
- The High Impact Network (THINK) Online Outreach (#p6733, #p6741, #p6742)
- All Your Favorite EA Orgs are Recruiting! (#p6736, #p6747, #p6751, #p6761, #p7141, #p7172)
- Facilitating hedonic enhancement as optimal altruism? (#p6860, #p6918, #p6934, #p7001)
- Why Are Some Utilitarians Not Also Effective Altruists? (#p6788, #p7079, #p7082, #p7319)
- What Would You Do If You Were an Anti-Utilitarian? (#p6789)
- Where Should My Money Go? (Revisited) (#p6805, #p6809, #p6816, #p6859, #p6863, #p6893, #p6905, #p6917, #p6997, #p7018, #p7040, #p7042)
- Should you donate to a charity with unmeasured results? (#p6818, #p6824, #p6898, #p6904)
- Introduction and a couple of topics (#p6823, #p6831, #p6858, #p6889, #p6897, #p7019, #p7020, #p7028)
- Rescuing a wild duck: a question (#p6856, #p6895)
- Utiliatarian Quotes? (#p6862, #p6890)
- GiveWell's New Top Charities (And Proposed Split!) (#p6857, #p6894)
- A new major article by Peter Singer (#p7044, #p7055, #p7060, #p7077, #p7081, #p7375)
- College: Take more courses or get a job? (#p7014)
- Plant Pain? (#p7099, #p7110, #p7187)
- Taking Action Against Potential Spam (#p7161, #p7174, #p7502, #p7587, #p7635)
- Leafleting for Vegan Outreach (#p7208)
- Do You Pay Attention to Mainstream News Issues? (#p7202)
- Where do you stand on free will vs determinism? (#p8054)
- Are most simulations fiction? (#p7235)
- Derek Parfit's "On What Matters" (#p7267)
- Hello to everyone (#p7256, #p7362)
- carbon offsets (#p7310)
- Cooperative Utilitarianism (#p7313)
- Compromises for people who aren't willing to go vegan (#p7325, #p7326)
- Discussion of "LessWrong on Felicifia" on LessWrong (#p7354)
- Do preferences/happiness/other utilities exist? (#p7434, #p7813)
- Near Death Experiences (#p7435)
- Why we can't rely on CEV (#p7479, #p7490)
- Total antiretributivism? (#p8056)
- Utilitarians on Twitter? (#p7538)
- In Impact, The Future Matters More (#p7553, #p7578)
- The haste consideration, revisited (#p8082)
- Preference hedonistic utilitarianism? (#p7715, #p7729)
- Goodbye (#p7601)
- Are petitions effective? (#p8142)
- Liberal Augustinianism: a new essay for Valentine's Day (#p7640, #p7647, #p7665)
- 'Decision theory' (#p7641)
- Questions for Moral Realists (#p7653, #p7707, #p7924, #p7971, #p7977)
- Woul life be pointless if well-being couldn't be maximized? (#p7693)
- Should I give up coffee? (#p7791, #p7795, #p7988)
- Negative-leaning utilitarianism as classical utilitarianism (#p7794, #p7814)
- Quotes from "The theory of facilitated variation" (#p7878)
- If the Logic of the Larder were true (#p7886)
- Population ethics and effective altruism (#p7899)
- Open links in new tabs? (#p7908)
- Thunder from Down Under (#p7918)
- Am I NLU or NU? (#p8249, #p8349, #p8351)
- Everyday utilitarianism in practice (#p8017)
- Does EAA Have Room for More Funding? (#p8019)
- Utilitarians and Depression (#p8060)
- utilitarian.net and utilitarianism.net (#p8096)
- Help me name my website (#p8097, #p8105)
- Looking for literature (#p8108)
- Greetings! (#p8132)
- My New Blog: Everyday Utilitarian (#p8154)
- Hellish VR (#p8220)
- The simulation argument and human extinction (#p8263)
- The Case for Vegan Outreach, Now On LessWrong (#p8314, #p8328)
- Giving Now Currently Seems to Beat Giving Later (#p8353)
- Peter's Strategic Plan (#p8354)
- Initial Thoughts on Personally Finding a High-Impact Career (#p8358)
- College Student Philanthropy and Funding Millenium Villages (#p8360)
- Hello! (#p8398)
- My introduction to Felicifia (#p8459, #p8478, #p8525, #p8536, #p8546)
- The Immediate Social Giving Problem (#p8460, #p8476)
- Shulman's Vegan advocacy & pessimism re wild animal welfare' (#p8512)
- Mnumerical nemonics (#p8522, #p8527, #p8537, #p8545)
- Slavoj Zizek on Charity (#p8534)
- The Humane League new study and funding opportunity? (#p8551, #p8552, #p8562)
- Subscribe to thread option (#p8555)
- Updating my utilitarianism for regression to the mean? (#p8554)
- Eudaimonic and Theistic Utilitarianism (#p9029)
- Earthquake Prediction Project (#p8597, #p9414, #p9418, #p9428, #p9434, #p9436, #p9438, #p9445, #p9450)
- Ethical Goods vs Donations (#p8632, #p8650)
- Can we repent with our dollars? (#p8651)
- Hi (#p8684)
- How will we discover whether insects are sentient or not? (#p8693)
- Preference vs. Hedonistic Utilitarianism wrt Archimedeanism (#p8695)
- Utilitarian/EA commune/business... (#p8714, #p8863, #p8869)
- Debate Between Peter Hurford and Alonzo Fyfe (#p8754, #p8875, #p8925, #p8997, #p9171)
- Peanut Gallery: Debate between Peter Hurford and Alonzo Fyfe (#p8928)
- Alternative to meat 'reduction' advocacy? (#p8868)
- I'm planning on saving instead of donating. Thoughts? (#p8877, #p8893, #p8919, #p8921, #p8922, #p9493)
- 'Valence utilitarianism' (#p8951, #p8953)
- Anyone having cookie issues? (#p8962)
- Flow through effects in animal charities (#p8970, #p9106)
- In Defence of Moral Realism (#p9048, #p9107)
- Career advice (#p9105)
- From Pescetarian Preference to Veganism (#p9104, #p9116, #p9118)
- Where did all the regulars go? (#p9095)
- Transcendence - aka Singularity The Movie (#p9185)
- Why I Don't Prioritize GCRs (#p9307)
- Why consequentialism and sentiocentrism? (#p9218)
- Studying on the Makers Academy course (#p9327)
- Vitamin B12 (#p9347)
- Ethically raised animals (#p9346)
- The lowest bar (#p9350, #p9353, #p9355)
- How many hedons per dollar? (#p9409)
- Pamphlet (#p9474)
- Felicifia Is No Longer Accepting New Users (#p9486, #p9492, #p9494, #p9548)