Erich_Grunewald(Erich Grunewald)

• Erich_Grunewald 29 Dec 2020 20:36 UTC

  6 points

  on: Covid 12/​24: We’re F***ed, It’s Over

  Deaths in Europe continue to run close to those in the United States, suggesting the Europeans are finding cases less often than we are, or have worse medical care or are worse at protecting vulnerable populations.

  Note that Europe & the EU both have significantly higher median ages than does the U.S. (~42 & 42.6 versus 38.1).

Can a Ve­gan Diet Be Healthy? A Liter­a­ture Review

Mo­ral Golems

• Erich_Grunewald 4 Apr 2021 15:46 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: Timothy Johnson’s comment on: Mo­ral Golems

  Thanks for the suggestion; I wasn’t aware of Robert Kegan or his work.

Redis­cov­ery, the Mind’s Curare

Net­works of Meaning

• Erich_Grunewald 26 Apr 2021 9:09 UTC

  1 point

  on: Would robots care about Mean­ing and Re­lat­ing?

  I suppose I may as well take the opportunity to point people to my essay Networks of Meaning (or on my website) which covers some of the same ground, including connections with association and analogy. It may be a good complement to this post.

• Erich_Grunewald 4 May 2021 7:52 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: Gordon Seidoh Worley’s comment on: Why I Work on Ads

  I don’t think this is fair. Advice is usually given when requested. In fact, people often don’t like receiving unsolicited advice. I’m sure people would be fine with advertisement if it was opt-in.

• Erich_Grunewald 4 May 2021 17:21 UTC

  1 point

  in reply to: Gordon Seidoh Worley’s comment on: Why I Work on Ads

  I didn’t mean to imply that advice is always given with consent. I just meant that it is so to a far larger degree than advertisement, and that that is an important difference.

  Even when advice is unsolicited (your intervention example is a good one) it is usually done with the intention of doing something good for the recipient. I think advertisement is usually carried out with the intention to benefit the advertiser. Again, I’m not saying it’s always black and white. But I think there are pretty clear differences between these two activities on average.

In­ter­view with Chris­tine M. Kors­gaard: An­i­mal Ethics, Kan­ti­anism, Utilitarianism

• Erich_Grunewald 8 May 2021 19:28 UTC

  3 points

  in reply to: Robbo’s comment on: In­ter­view with Chris­tine M. Kors­gaard: An­i­mal Ethics, Kan­ti­anism, Utilitarianism

  I know the author and the blog but didn’t know the paper, thanks!

How Can One Tell What Is Beau­tiful?

Scor­ing My As­traZeneca Predictions

Utili­tar­i­anism Ex­pressed in Julia

In­ter­view with Olle Häg­gström: Rea­son, COVID-19 and Aca­demic Free­dom in Sweden

Mo­ral Golems As­sume Uncertainty

• Erich_Grunewald 28 Aug 2021 22:56 UTC

  1 point

  in reply to: Ruby’s comment on: Mo­ral Golems As­sume Uncertainty

  Thanks for commenting. I haven’t written about anything like that because my thoughts about it are rudimentary at best! I think you’re correct that these speculations are premised on some sort of moral realism (if I understand you correctly). To be clear, I really don’t know whether moral realism or anti-realism is more plausible. Just from a very shallow knowledge of metaethics, i think something like constructivism seems most plausible to me, but I’m not sure about how that maps onto the realism/​anti-realism question.

Pre­fer the Bri­tish Style of Quo­ta­tion Mark Punc­tu­a­tion over the American

• Erich_Grunewald 11 Sep 2021 22:21 UTC

  1 point

  in reply to: Measure’s comment on: Pre­fer the Bri­tish Style of Quo­ta­tion Mark Punc­tu­a­tion over the American

  Indeed, see the 5th footnote!

Scout Mind­set and Lat­ter-Day Saint Apostasy