by avatarjoindate
- (source) Sun Apr 17, 2011 11:06 am
- (source) Hedonic Treader
- (source) "The abolishment of pain in surgery is a chimera. It is absurd to go on seeking it... Knife and pain are two words in surgery that must forever be associated in the consciousness of the patient."
- Dr. Alfred Velpeau (1839), French surgeon
- Are increases in existential risks good or bad?
- Gene selection as a utilitarian tool?
- Are humans more benevolent or malevolent?
- Facilitating hedonic enhancement as optimal altruism?
- Goodbye
- Long-term strategies: Enhancement and fast reproduction
- Economic Growth: useful or harmful?
- The lowest bar
- How many hedons per dollar?
- An even more ambitious pledge (#p5929)
- Sentience and brain size (#p8151, #p8235)
- Charities: What could you do with $15,000? (#p3359, #p3543, #p3562, #p3600, #p3659, #p3736)
- Reasons SIAI (and research generally) is not optimal? (#p3282, #p3284)
- The poor meat eater problem (#p2726, #p2740, #p2755, #p6834, #p7087, #p7145, #p7390, #p8203)
- Lobby group for wild animal suffering? (#p7151, #p7153, #p7471, #p7478, #p7963, #p9392, #p9395, #p9397)
- You shouldn't be a veg*n. (#p5875)
- Dying worms: To squash or not? (#p7875)
- Existential risk reduction cost effectiveness (#p2754)
- Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment (#p4888, #p7229)
- Welcome, Hedonic Treader (#p2730)
- Are increases in existential risks good or bad? (#p2739, #p2742, #p2770)
- Brief argument against aggregation (#p3236, #p4862)
- Some questions for study (#p3085, #p3086, #p3094, #p3096, #p3100, #p3107)
- My piece on euthanasia @openDemocracy - please share/comment (#p3097)
- are wild animals happier than domestic ones? (#p3128, #p3134)
- happiness is relative? (#p3153, #p3158)
- Total vs. Prior-Existence (#p3204, #p3206, #p3209, #p3226, #p3228, #p3235)
- feasability of the abolition of wild animal suffering? (#p3381, #p3479)
- fighting against factory farming (#p3385, #p3388)
- Utilitarian cartoon of the week (#p5354, #p5356, #p5362, #p5450, #p6270)
- Maths tutorial videos by LessWrong member (#p3547)
- Friendly AI and utilitarianism (#p3612, #p3616, #p3646, #p3652, #p3655, #p3661, #p3666, #p3669, #p3699, #p3897)
- What would a utilitarian government look like? (#p3664, #p3675, #p3678, #p3681, #p3761)
- Grandroids! artificial life? (#p3690)
- How do you avoid getting depressed? (#p3775)
- Animal rights illegal activism, causes net benefit? (#p3842)
- Question about QALYs and DALYs (#p4379)
- Existential risk survey study - feedback appreciated! (#p3924)
- Preventing Antisocial Personality Disorder (#p4732, #p4746, #p4760, #p5401, #p6985, #p6989, #p6996, #p7006, #p7027, #p7032, #p7067, #p7148, #p8148)
- Vegan Outreach vs. New Harvest (#p4484, #p4656, #p5433)
- infinite utility in felicific calculations and x risks (#p4377, #p4381)
- What's so bad about being risk averse, anyway? (#p4225, #p4483)
- Deciding How Altruistic to Be (#p4224, #p4257, #p4378)
- Salutations! (#p4265)
- Peter Singer on Utilitarianism (#p4352)
- Utilitronium shockwave (#p4439, #p5607, #p5928, #p6024, #p6120, #p6166, #p6175, #p6179, #p6207, #p8088)
- A few dystopic future scenarios (#p4459, #p5209, #p5492, #p5493, #p5496, #p5941, #p5959, #p5970, #p6371, #p7066, #p7072, #p7085, #p7100, #p7108, #p7227, #p7228, #p7493, #p7496, #p7501, #p7513, #p7570, #p7580)
- How did you find Felicifia? (#p4658, #p4734)
- Total versus average happiness (#p4759)
- What is it like to die as a 2-day-old insect? (#p7879)
- Increasing Happiness in Animals (#p4657)
- should we be optimistic or pessimistic about the future? (#p4804)
- Undercover investigation inside the british pig industry (#p4880)
- Unconvinced on doctor/organ argument (#p4841, #p4869, #p4872)
- Professional philanthropy vs professional influencing (#p4891, #p4896, #p4899)
- My version of consequentialism (#p5435, #p5438)
- Utilitarianism and Masochism (#p5426, #p5428)
- Who is the world's happiest person (and animal)? (#p5388)
- Giving to the Centre for Effective Altruism (#p6256)
- Pedophilia (#p5439)
- Preferential vs. hedonistic 0 utility points (#p5605, #p5624)
- Most Utilitarian Political System? (#p5575, #p5579)
- Why people give to developing-world charities (#p5625, #p5633, #p5734, #p5783, #p5937, #p6023, #p6036, #p6121, #p6425, #p6429, #p6443)
- Humane reinforcement-learning research (#p5664, #p5670, #p5691)
- Unrelated hobbies (#p6731)
- Reducing Suffering with Current Resources (#p5737, #p5739, #p5742)
- Gene selection as a utilitarian tool? (#p5804, #p5805, #p6047)
- Open Problems in Utilitarianism (#p5942, #p5960, #p5971, #p7519, #p7524)
- Eliezer Yudkowsky on the Repugnant Conclusion (#p6084)
- Yudkowsky's Lifespan Dilemma (#p6076)
- Antifashionism (#p6119, #p6135)
- The faulty concept of "rights" poisons utilitarianism (#p6152, #p6306)
- Molly the Mathematician: Thought Experiment (#p6165, #p6170, #p6247)
- Mars Curiosity (#p6209, #p6227, #p6312, #p6314)
- David Benatar, "Better Never to Have Been" (#p6293, #p6901)
- Astronomically astronomical waste (#p6381, #p6395, #p6397, #p6403)
- David Pearce's latest essay: "A welfare state for elephants" (#p6398, #p6422, #p6444, #p6453, #p6458, #p6461, #p6495, #p6510, #p6512)
- Are humans more benevolent or malevolent? (#p6410, #p6416)
- Existential Risk (#p6428)
- Worse than the Holocaust? (#p6526)
- Any Non-Gruesome Factory Farming Videos? (#p7422)
- My opinion on the future of social change: (#p6471)
- How often should you buy a new stock? (#p6482, #p6492)
- Global Catastrophic Risk Institute (#p6493, #p6507, #p6509, #p6516, #p6520, #p6522)
- The Robin Hood Dilemma (#p6672, #p6690, #p6719, #p6727)
- Utilitarianism, Demandingness, and Fun (#p6732)
- Will marginal increases in global GDPincrease xrisk? (#p6851)
- Facilitating hedonic enhancement as optimal altruism? (#p6766, #p6776, #p6807, #p6854, #p6931, #p6956, #p7089, #p7094)
- Why Are Some Utilitarians Not Also Effective Altruists? (#p6794)
- What Would You Do If You Were an Anti-Utilitarian? (#p7431, #p7488)
- Where Should My Money Go? (Revisited) (#p6806)
- College: Take more courses or get a job? (#p7007)
- Plant Pain? (#p7065, #p7069, #p7086, #p7090, #p7115, #p7143)
- Exaltation Dominance philosophy (#p7144, #p7147)
- Do You Pay Attention to Mainstream News Issues? (#p7226)
- Traditional eugenics (#p7263)
- Altruistic recklessness (#p7462, #p7464, #p7470)
- Eternal Youth (#p7415, #p7424, #p7441)
- Do preferences/happiness/other utilities exist? (#p7428)
- Are there superorogatory acts? (#p7520)
- Utilitarianism and liberty (#p7482)
- Total antiretributivism? (#p7508)
- What thinkers have inspired you, outside utilitarianism? (#p7574)
- Goodbye (#p7588, #p7874, #p7913, #p8150)
- Liberal Augustinianism: a new essay for Valentine's Day (#p8149, #p8171)
- Questions for Moral Realists (#p7975, #p7985, #p7987, #p7991, #p8001)
- Negative-leaning utilitarianism as classical utilitarianism (#p7799, #p7825, #p7831, #p7834, #p7876, #p8047)
- If the Logic of the Larder were true (#p7881, #p8430, #p8438)
- Population ethics and effective altruism (#p7893)
- How to not support extinction-risk reduction (#p7914, #p7925, #p7939)
- Am I NLU or NU? (#p7946, #p7951, #p7954, #p7974, #p8161)
- Viewing people as 'vessels' (#p8011)
- Values spreading often more important than extinction risk (#p8067, #p8297, #p8568, #p8570)
- Slavery and Utilitarianism (#p8072, #p8074)
- My New Blog: Everyday Utilitarian (#p8160)
- preference based economy (#p8174, #p8181, #p8620, #p8629)
- Should we focus on reducing plants? (#p8209, #p8212)
- Hellish VR (#p8219)
- The simulation argument and human extinction (#p8228)
- Happiness Economics (#p8377, #p8381)
- Long-term strategies: Enhancement and fast reproduction (#p8434)
- Arguments for the potentiality of a utilitarian future (#p9351)
- The Immediate Social Giving Problem (#p8451, #p8458)
- Updating my utilitarianism for regression to the mean? (#p8556, #p8559)
- Eudaimonic and Theistic Utilitarianism (#p8582)
- Wild caught fish (#p8676)
- How will we discover whether insects are sentient or not? (#p8699)
- Economic Growth: useful or harmful? (#p8725, #p8727)
- I'm planning on saving instead of donating. Thoughts? (#p8890)
- 'Valence utilitarianism' (#p8960)
- Ethically raised animals (#p9393)
- The lowest bar (#p9349, #p9352, #p9354)
- How many hedons per dollar? (#p9398, #p9400, #p9407, #p9410)