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- (source) Fri Oct 10, 2008 4:29 pm
- (source) DanielLC
- (source) Consequentialism: The belief that doing the right thing makes the world a better place.
- Getting people to join
- CAPTCHA
- Charity sub-forum
- Comparing charities 1
- Ethical implications of non-ethical philosophies
- Practical differences between utilitarian theories
- Hello
- Functionalism
- Charity and Uncertainty
- Liaise-faire vs Government intervention
- Charity idea: Investment
- Pardoxes
- Donate vs. Invest
- Philosophy of Time
- An English project of mine.
- What makes animals happy?
- Evidential Decision Theory and Mass Mind Control
- Common Misconceptions of Consequentialism
- Convincing people to donate
- Can someone post an article on Less Wrong?
- Hedonism vs preferentialism
- Short Film Idea: The Button
- Pedophilia
- Wild caught fish
- Livestock Factory (parody song)
- Earth's Land Mammals by Weight
- Vitamin B12
- Ethically raised animals
- Pamphlet
- LessWrong article on Effective Altruism and Veg*nism
- Which animals are fine to eat?
- Comics (#p3858)
- Forum styles (#p44, #p208)
- Getting people to join (#p39)
- Utilitarianism and drugs (soma) (#p427, #p460, #p995)
- CAPTCHA (#p63)
- Average vs Total (#p586)
- Anders Sandberg: Virtual Property (#p432)
- Toby Ord: The Truth About Saving Water (#p429)
- Toby Ord: Risks of the Large Hadron Collider (#p423)
- Felicifia signature (#p492)
- Common objections to consequentialism (#p411, #p426, #p665, #p1862, #p2075, #p2084, #p2385, #p2692, #p5322)
- Utilitarianism: semantics (#p428)
- What is utility (#p525, #p585, #p607, #p620, #p622, #p625, #p627, #p647)
- Felicifia mods (#p503, #p619, #p643)
- Imprisonment (#p422)
- Rudeness (#p410)
- Desire Utilitarianism (#p412)
- Preference Satisfaction versus Desire Fulfilment (#p584, #p590, #p598, #p600, #p608, #p1437, #p1577, #p1582)
- Discussion of consequentialist objections (#p731, #p748, #p1032, #p1301)
- Charity sub-forum (#p461, #p1419)
- Consequentialism and terrorism (#p478)
- Comparing charities 1 (#p476, #p553, #p2432)
- If you could find out the date on which you'd die (#p564)
- Festive season (#p500)
- Personal identity (#p512)
- Preventing the most suffering (#p560, #p562, #p581)
- Ethical implications of non-ethical philosophies (#p563, #p575, #p580)
- Practical differences between utilitarian theories (#p566, #p568, #p570, #p576, #p579)
- utilitarianism and the law (#p617, #p631, #p644, #p654, #p771, #p786, #p800, #p842)
- Superstition (#p688)
- Hello (#p687, #p691)
- Utilitarianism and Tolerance (#p723)
- Free Will (#p778)
- Snowballs (#p1621)
- Happiness economics (#p798, #p801, #p885)
- Desire utilitarianism = virtue ethics (#p821)
- Evidential decision theory and the doomsday argument (#p830, #p832, #p836, #p841, #p844, #p865, #p908, #p1407)
- Climate change (#p886, #p889, #p903, #p906)
- Welcome to the forum for The Life You Can Save (#p1282)
- Different ways of assessing charities (#p989)
- Sentience and brain size (#p919, #p921, #p924, #p926, #p939, #p1059, #p1064, #p1066, #p1089, #p1091, #p1099, #p1101, #p1103, #p1105, #p4810, #p8163, #p8234, #p8406)
- Anders Sandberg: File Sharing (#p932, #p959, #p961, #p963, #p966, #p969)
- Functionalism (#p934)
- Phenomonology Architecture and Utilitarians (#p946, #p952)
- Hello (#p1001, #p1005, #p1012)
- Charity and Uncertainty (#p1018, #p1020, #p1023)
- Water Is A Human Right (#p1046, #p1048)
- Vegetarianism, Climate Change, and Wild Animals (#p1051, #p1056)
- Charities: What could you do with $15,000? (#p1219)
- Risk Premiums (#p1113, #p8292, #p8301)
- Externalities: Buying from Meat-Eaters, etc (#p1074, #p1077, #p1080, #p1085)
- Reasons SIAI (and research generally) is not optimal? (#p1143, #p1249, #p1285, #p1287)
- Eco-footprint of protein isolates (#p1141, #p1146)
- Publicising Singer's shallow pond (#p2870, #p2872)
- Why We Must Ration Health Care (#p1150, #p1152, #p1317, #p1319)
- I am the Very Model of a Modern Libertarian (#p1162, #p1180, #p1184)
- Liaise-faire vs Government intervention (#p1160, #p1173, #p1218)
- Anti-politics: why we have something better to do (#p1227, #p1230, #p1232)
- Charity idea: Investment (#p1234, #p1237, #p1981, #p1983)
- Consistency (#p1254, #p1257)
- Unhappiness pill, in response to Anders Sandberg (#p1271, #p1278)
- Pardoxes (#p1302, #p1304)
- Total utilitarians - what would a real net 0 day look like? (#p1342, #p1347, #p1376, #p1383)
- Scalar consequentialism - obvious? (#p1331, #p1333)
- Question about Intent, Singer, and Parfit's Bad Moms (#p1352, #p1361)
- Reflective Equilibrium (#p1396)
- Donate vs. Invest (#p1408, #p1415, #p1418)
- Philosophy of Time (#p1420, #p1432)
- Extreme and minor suffering (#p1436, #p1443, #p1456)
- The poor meat eater problem (#p1453, #p1501, #p2091, #p2106, #p2145, #p2209, #p2286)
- Luxury vegan food -- a dilemma (#p1454, #p1459, #p1468, #p1482)
- Preference Utilitarianism & Rights and Desires (#p1481)
- Reducing-Suffering Wiki (#p1505, #p1530)
- An English project of mine. (#p1506)
- Hedonism vs preferentialism (#p1600, #p1657, #p1759)
- Utility Maximizing Investing (#p1693, #p1698)
- The Relationship between Rules, Happiness, and Actions (#p1608)
- Meta-ethical foundation for utilitarianism? (#p1752, #p2258)
- Act utilitarianism (#p1676)
- Abolitionism and animals (with a little intro-rant) (#p1681)
- Lobby group for wild animal suffering? (#p1738, #p1744)
- essay about Vegan Outreach (#p4282)
- a new model for online giving... (#p1751)
- Would teaching Buddhism be better than teaching utilitarian? (#p1777)
- What makes animals happy? (#p1807)
- Meta-ethics. What's your position? (#p2492, #p2496)
- Do insects feel pain? (#p2517)
- Utilitarianisms fatal flaw (#p1835)
- Who owes the world morality? (#p1851)
- Forming an organization: To wait or not? (#p1914, #p1916, #p1921)
- Promoting awareness of animal emotions? (#p4414, #p4421)
- Evidential Decision Theory and Mass Mind Control (#p1927)
- Pamphlet on wild-animal suffering (#p1944, #p1950, #p1953, #p1970)
- Article about wildlife fertility control (#p1989, #p1991, #p1999)
- Meme promotion (#p2004)
- Public transport dilemna (#p2020, #p2047)
- using social cause as commercial advertisement (#p2033)
- You shouldn't be a veg*n. (#p2055, #p2133, #p2288, #p2298, #p2901)
- Consistent empathy leads to hedonism (#p2066, #p2085, #p2087)
- Julian Saveluscu on performance enhancing drugs (#p2074)
- Maybe philosophers should become writers instead? (#p2076)
- Utilitarianism/consequentialism (#p2096, #p2111, #p2121, #p2130, #p2138, #p2205, #p2242, #p2269, #p2278, #p2283)
- RE: Hi There! (#p2122, #p2126, #p2167, #p2185, #p2189, #p2199)
- Common Misconceptions of Consequentialism (#p2123)
- HU and killing (#p2129, #p2140)
- McMahan on predation and intervention in nature (#p2532)
- Many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics (#p2192, #p2417)
- Utilitarians : how can I/we counter this argument? (#p2201, #p2274)
- Sam Harris: not a utilitarian (#p2217)
- One world government (#p2275, #p2592)
- "Is 2-2=2000-2000=0?" and "Is the world's utility + or -?" (#p2295)
- Consequentialism and Moral Luck (#p2305)
- Hi everyone! (#p2313, #p2318, #p2323, #p2335)
- Are happiness and suffering symmetrical in value (#p2315)
- Utilitarianism and empathy (#p2314, #p2319)
- Against the imminent singularity (#p2347, #p2352)
- Ask for donations for Christmas (#p2338, #p2344, #p2412)
- Simulations (#p2356)
- What gives valence to qualia? (#p2377, #p2393, #p2395)
- 'Utilitarianism justifies the gang rape of a woman by 10 men (#p2376, #p2482, #p2544, #p2576)
- Physicial assisted suicides (#p2386)
- Ethical hedonism (#p2397, #p2429, #p2433, #p2443, #p2456, #p2470)
- Felicifia Wiki (#p2402)
- Bestiality and the noumenal order (#p2542)
- Utilitarianism and 'infidelity' (#p2419, #p2447, #p2449, #p2510)
- Existential risk reduction cost effectiveness (#p2451)
- A New Year's Resolution for the rich - Sam Harris (#p2540, #p2551, #p2578)
- Does Vegetarianism Make a Difference? (#p2543, #p2573)
- Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment (#p4886)
- Downtime (#p2621)
- Affection vs ethics (#p2641)
- Deontology, Intuitionism, Authoritarian vs. Consequentialism (#p2676)
- Marriage as a legal institution (#p2679, #p2681)
- Your political views? (#p2689, #p2696, #p2699, #p2704)
- Norms (#p2724, #p2732, #p2737, #p2753, #p2758)
- Do (or should) utilitarians hold truth as a virtue? (#p2715, #p2717)
- Are increases in existential risks good or bad? (#p2749, #p2752)
- New to Felicifia, Happy to be here (#p2786)
- a complete solution (#p2825)
- plants that eat animals and utilitarianism (#p2831, #p2842)
- over population and the voluntary human extinction movment (#p2850)
- lucky me (#p2869)
- Doomsday Reasoning (#p3403, #p3408, #p3422, #p3427, #p3444)
- But what about fairness? (#p2950, #p3433, #p3487)
- Need a good elevator pitch about speciesism (#p2958, #p2971)
- Brief argument against aggregation (#p2961, #p2970, #p2987)
- on not eating animals (#p3184)
- happiness is relative? (#p3156)
- facebook, social networks. etc? (#p3497)
- Expected gain: John Broome's criticisms, etc. (#p3183)
- AI in a box (#p3175, #p3177, #p3185, #p3232)
- Total vs. Prior-Existence (#p3188, #p3207, #p3210, #p3212, #p3216, #p3231)
- Animal testing (New Internationalist debate you might join) (#p3202, #p3230, #p3242, #p3247, #p3250, #p3255, #p3257)
- Priorities for research and charity (#p3233, #p3251)
- feasability of the abolition of wild animal suffering? (#p3335, #p3339, #p3472, #p3483)
- fighting against factory farming (#p3387)
- Your suggestions for Pragmatic Utilitarianism (#p3404, #p3423)
- Killing animals for food, intrinsically wrong? (#p3492)
- Convincing people to donate (#p3498)
- Utilitarian cartoon of the week (#p3972, #p3979, #p4107, #p4501, #p5353, #p5361, #p5504, #p6104)
- pesticides and the possibility of insect suffering (#p3531, #p3623, #p3625, #p3633, #p3727, #p3758, #p3766, #p4134, #p4145, #p4154, #p4185, #p4200)
- Can someone post an article on Less Wrong? (#p3541, #p3546, #p5241, #p5277)
- Maximum utility density systems (#p3556, #p3558, #p3696)
- A worry for professional philanthropy? (#p3561, #p3605, #p3643)
- Land Value Taxation (#p3570, #p4982)
- Friendly AI and utilitarianism (#p3606, #p3622, #p3634, #p3636, #p3639)
- Controlled Atmosphere Killing campaign (#p3603)
- What would a utilitarian government look like? (#p3686, #p3695, #p3768, #p3773, #p4035)
- Grandroids! artificial life? (#p3687)
- Hedonism vs preferentialism (#p3726, #p3730, #p3748)
- GiveWell's post against "explicit expected-value" giving (#p3725)
- header (#p3778)
- Hierarchical Utilitarianism (#p3767, #p3771)
- Wild Animal Suffering and Vegetarianism. (#p3826, #p3863, #p4128, #p4153)
- Animal rights illegal activism, causes net benefit? (#p3848)
- Utilitarian Emblem? (#p3876, #p3887, #p3912, #p3920, #p4140, #p4152)
- Question about QALYs and DALYs (#p3888, #p4387)
- Should we expect our universe to be very young? (#p3946, #p3949, #p3956)
- Sentience and clock speed (#p3955)
- Vegan Outreach vs. New Harvest (#p4465)
- infinite utility in felicific calculations and x risks (#p4083, #p4091, #p4097, #p4106)
- What's so bad about being risk averse, anyway? (#p4167, #p4183, #p4194)
- how did you become a utilitarian? (#p4184)
- Deciding How Altruistic to Be (#p4217, #p4230, #p4255, #p4375, #p4391)
- Moral agency and the animal (#p4270)
- A Utiitarian View of Wrongful War (#p4318, #p4324, #p4326)
- Can They Suffer? Binary and Scalar approaches to capacity. (#p4349, #p5227)
- Why I'm Not a Utilitarian (#p4366, #p4373, #p4491)
- Evaluating animal-welfare charities' effectiveness (#p4374)
- Utilitronium shockwave (#p4446, #p4490, #p4562, #p4938, #p4983)
- truth, logic and morality (#p4998)
- A few dystopic future scenarios (#p4458, #p5490, #p5953, #p5977, #p5990, #p6373)
- How did you find Felicifia? (#p4509)
- One Trillion Fish (#p4510, #p4530, #p4535)
- Polyamoury and Utilitarianism (#p4582, #p4944, #p4962, #p5127)
- Total versus average happiness (#p4553, #p4561, #p4761, #p4997)
- Increasing Happiness in Animals (#p4618, #p4621)
- AI and norn sentience question (#p4796, #p4798)
- Undercover investigation inside the british pig industry (#p4879)
- Unconvinced on doctor/organ argument (#p4840, #p4843, #p4856, #p4871, #p4915)
- Criticism of the Lifeboat Foundation (#p4861)
- Test-tube hamburger ready for 2012 (#p4878)
- Pleasure mechanisms of the brain (#p6041)
- New viral makes case for moral status of AI (#p5026)
- War, what is it good for? (#p5042, #p5063, #p5077)
- What to do with your body when you die? (#p5112)
- My version of consequentialism (#p5436)
- Utilitarianism, feminism and the assumption of male privileg (#p7998)
- Utilitarianism and Masochism (#p5242, #p6935)
- Short Film Idea: The Button (#p5278)
- "Negative Average Preference Utilitarianism" (#p5280)
- Who is the world's happiest person (and animal)? (#p5381)
- Pedophilia (#p5437, #p5447, #p5477)
- Thought experiment on who people consider (un)happy (#p5478)
- Consciousness and tableness (#p5600, #p5609)
- Preferential vs. hedonistic 0 utility points (#p5623)
- Emotions being relative to what you compare them to (#p5610, #p5612)
- The correct type of utilitarianism (#p5554, #p5567, #p5599, #p5629)
- Most Utilitarian Political System? (#p5560)
- Cross Auction Model (#p5559, #p5582)
- Why people give to developing-world charities (#p5626, #p5636, #p5641)
- Unrelated hobbies (#p5707)
- Reducing Suffering with Current Resources (#p5738, #p5740, #p5793)
- Free will does not exist (#p5824, #p6127, #p6142)
- Open Problems in Utilitarianism (#p5965, #p5968, #p7523, #p7530)
- Happiness - a short summary (#p5982)
- Eliezer Yudkowsky on the Repugnant Conclusion (#p6074, #p6086, #p6093)
- Yudkowsky's Lifespan Dilemma (#p6075)
- We need to hedge our bets on the free will question (#p6103)
- The faulty concept of "rights" poisons utilitarianism (#p6149)
- Mars Curiosity (#p6313)
- Utilitarianism and Phobias: A Thought Experiment (#p6238)
- David Benatar, "Better Never to Have Been" (#p6648)
- The case for selling one's kidney (#p6350)
- many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics (#p6421)
- Good business ideas (#p6485)
- Bad News For Bed Nets? (#p6594)
- Arguments for and against Utilitarianism? (#p6565, #p6664)
- The Robin Hood Dilemma (#p6655)
- Friendship Is Optimal: the Singularity... by way of Ponies (#p6841)
- Utiliatarian Quotes? (#p6886)
- GiveWell's New Top Charities (And Proposed Split!) (#p6887)
- College: Take more courses or get a job? (#p7008, #p7024)
- Do You Pay Attention to Mainstream News Issues? (#p7219)
- Where do you stand on free will vs determinism? (#p8053)
- Are most simulations fiction? (#p8272, #p8294)
- Traditional eugenics (#p7261)
- Against cryonics advocacy (#p8283, #p8327)
- Deflationary personal identity (aka Empty Individualism) (#p7776)
- Why doesn't evolution lead to gender specialization? (#p7407)
- Eternal Youth (#p7439, #p7452)
- Do preferences/happiness/other utilities exist? (#p7453)
- Near Death Experiences (#p7531, #p7543, #p7552, #p7555, #p7569)
- Are there superorogatory acts? (#p7451, #p7522)
- Total antiretributivism? (#p7516)
- What thinkers have inspired you, outside utilitarianism? (#p8315, #p8317, #p8319)
- Eating big animals to reduce farm animal suffering (#p7624)
- 'Decision theory' (#p7679, #p7696)
- Implications of Evidential Decision Theory (#p7655, #p7712, #p7732, #p7741, #p7754, #p7763, #p7773, #p7806, #p7838, #p7852, #p7857)
- The 'quick reply' bias? (#p7775)
- How many minds could the future support? (#p7864, #p8282)
- If the Logic of the Larder were true (#p8429, #p8431, #p8437)
- Reintroduction of Species (#p7894)
- Why organisms have suffering and happiness (#p8333, #p8678, #p8697, #p8711, #p8713)
- Slavery and Utilitarianism (#p8075)
- preference based economy (#p8172, #p8175, #p8202, #p8230, #p8233)
- The simulation argument and human extinction (#p8776)
- Happiness Economics (#p8376, #p8382)
- The Immediate Social Giving Problem (#p8450)
- Eudaimonic and Theistic Utilitarianism (#p8573, #p8576, #p8578, #p8581, #p8586, #p9011, #p9028, #p9031)
- Allied Networks vs. The Dominion Machinarum (#p8587, #p8591, #p8595)
- Earthquake Prediction Project (#p9444, #p9448, #p9452)
- How To Build A Friendly A.I. (#p8594, #p8603)
- Categorizing objections to Utilitarianism (#p8673)
- Wild caught fish (#p8674)
- Economic Growth: useful or harmful? (#p8726, #p8870)
- Help thinking through my beliefs about population ethics (#p8987, #p8989)
- How Do You Argue With Libertarians and Anarcho-Capitalists (#p9004, #p9006, #p9010, #p9035, #p9147)
- Continuing Discussion: Utilitarianism and Politics (#p9015)
- Artificial Intelligence vs. Artificial Sentience (#p9027)
- Livestock Factory (parody song) (#p9065)
- True Love (#p9311, #p9313)
- From Pescetarian Preference to Veganism (#p9088, #p9091, #p9097)
- The Nuclear Option and The Psychology of Happiness (#p9087, #p9092)
- Do invertebrates feel pain? - New Scientist Article (#p9101)
- Earth's Land Mammals by Weight (#p9170)
- A critique of consequentialistic sentiocentrism (#p9217)
- Problem with causality & calculating impact of actions (#p9310)
- Studying on the Makers Academy course (#p9329)
- Vitamin B12 (#p9343)
- Ethically raised animals (#p9345)
- Pamphlet (#p9473, #p9475)
- A Formula Modification (#p9496)
- LessWrong article on Effective Altruism and Veg*nism (#p9499)
- Which animals are fine to eat? (#p9514)
- The Expected Utility of Sex (#p9518)
- Antinatalist solution to WAS - curious to hear your thoughts (#p9568, #p9570, #p9575, #p9577, #p9579, #p9583)