My current philosophical views on most things
So I can look back at this in ten years and cringe
Inspired by this article.
My current views are
1 moral realism is true
2 utilitarian is true and by far the best normative theory
3 I’m a non-naturalist about morality (though I think if you consider necessary supervenience to be natural then it would be naturalist and I think that much of the disputes between moral naturalists and non naturalists are very confused)
4 I’m strongly an atheist
5 I’m undecided between interactionalist property dualism and Searle’s view about consciousness
6 I’m a hedonist about welfare
7 I’m extremely pro effective altruism
8 I’m an ethical vegan,
9 I believe in the possibility of conscious AI
10 I accept the repugnant conclusion
11 I’m against torturing infants for fun
12 I think existential threat reduction should be the top global priority
13 I think Singer is correct about the drowning child analogy
14 I don’t think that higher values matter more than lower pleasures.
I will likely look back at this at some point and cringe. I recently saw an argument I wrote years ago which made me cringe “Epistemologically, if something was bad in a way that we didn’t experience, how would we know?”
Ick. What a terrible argument.
1 Even if we didn’t know that things were bad that wouldn’t prevent them from being bad in fact.
2 We often know that things cause non hedonic goodness.
So hopefully I’ll progress philosophically enough to think that my current views are idiotic at some point.