Like… I’m trying to figure out why the title of the post is “I am not a successionist” and not “like many other utilitarians I have a preference for people who are biologically similar to me, I have things in common with, or I am close friends with. I believe when optimizing utility in the far future we should take these things into account”
Even though can’t comment on OP’s views, you seemed to have a strong objection to my “we’re merely talking price” statement (i.e. when calculating total utility we consider tradeoffs between different things we care about).
Edit:
to put it another way, if I wrote a post titled “I am a successionist” in which I said something like: “I want my children to have happy lives and their children to have happy lives, and I believe they can define ‘children’ in whatever way seems best to them”, how would my views actually different from yours (or the OPs)?
Those all sound line fairly normal beliefs.
Like… I’m trying to figure out why the title of the post is “I am not a successionist” and not “like many other utilitarians I have a preference for people who are biologically similar to me, I have things in common with, or I am close friends with. I believe when optimizing utility in the far future we should take these things into account”
Even though can’t comment on OP’s views, you seemed to have a strong objection to my “we’re merely talking price” statement (i.e. when calculating total utility we consider tradeoffs between different things we care about).
Edit:
to put it another way, if I wrote a post titled “I am a successionist” in which I said something like: “I want my children to have happy lives and their children to have happy lives, and I believe they can define ‘children’ in whatever way seems best to them”, how would my views actually different from yours (or the OPs)?