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The Ideal Observer Argument for Consequentialism
Why you should do what makes things go best
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A Proof of Utilitarianism
From 4 basic axioms.
Bentham's bulldog
Mar 24
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I’m Chatting With Johan Gustafsson Tomorrow. Do Any of You Have Any Things You’d Like Me to Ask Him?
He's the money pump guy
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Mar 22
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A New Utterly Decisive Argument Against the Person Affecting View
The person-affecting view has no objection to decreasing future people's pleasure for the sake of arbitrarily small benefits
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Mar 20
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Why Are There So Few Utilitarians
In fact, I don't even think I should
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Mar 20
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Wokeness Is Real and a Significant Problem, Not Just Something That People With Too Much Time on Their Hands Are Concerned About
Sophisticated centrists who claim that wokeness is just overhyped internet bullshit are wrong
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Mar 15
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Mimicking Friedman's Writing Style
Mixed metaphor galore
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Mar 13
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The Monstrous Implications of Prioritarianism
Theron Pummer's powerful argument against prioritarianism
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Mar 13
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Argumentation Ethics Is Stupendously Idiotic, so Much So That Anyone Who Believes It Is either 13, Afflicted by Severe Libertarian Motivated…
It is hard to believe that people believe it
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Mar 13
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Argumentation Ethics Is Stupendously Idiotic, so Much So That Anyone Who Believes It Is either 13, Afflicted by Severe Libertarian Motivated Reasoning, or Unable to Reason
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Funny Debate I Had
About the non-aggression principle
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Mar 11
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A Simple Money Pump for Some Limited Version of Independence, as Well as Another Argument for It
Why it's irrational to prefer A to b but a .5 probability of A and .5 probability of B to a certainty of A.
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Mar 10
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Moderate Deontology Requires Thinking That the Fact That Some Action Causes Other People to Do Wrong Things Sometimes Counts in Favor of It
This implication seems implausible
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Mar 9
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Moderate Deontology Requires Thinking That the Fact That Some Action Causes Other People to Do Wrong Things Sometimes Counts in Favor of It
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