How Consequentialism Is Ruining Things And What To Do About It
I would like to see this post. I have a sense that there’s a significant number of LWers who are against consequentialism and this is a crux in many disagreements, but we haven’t really had a proper debate about it (at least not in recent memory).
BTW, the version of consequentialism I currently find appealing is not making decisions purely by explicit reasoning about consequences, but training/using one’s intuitions to predict and evaluate consequences, or using a combination of explicit reasoning and intuitions, which gets around the objection that (act) consequentialism is infeasible for humans.
(Also, BTW, you misspelled my name as “Wei Dei”. Leaving a public note here because I see this misspelling pretty often including around here and this note will probably cause people to be a bit more careful when they try to type my name in the future.)
I would like to see this post. I have a sense that there’s a significant number of LWers who are against consequentialism and this is a crux in many disagreements, but we haven’t really had a proper debate about it (at least not in recent memory).
BTW, the version of consequentialism I currently find appealing is not making decisions purely by explicit reasoning about consequences, but training/using one’s intuitions to predict and evaluate consequences, or using a combination of explicit reasoning and intuitions, which gets around the objection that (act) consequentialism is infeasible for humans.
(Also, BTW, you misspelled my name as “Wei Dei”. Leaving a public note here because I see this misspelling pretty often including around here and this note will probably cause people to be a bit more careful when they try to type my name in the future.)