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1. I scanned through several pages of the thread, but couldn't find a recap of the Methods series that I think I saw on SA a few years ago (it actually went beyond the first dozen chapters and pointed out how wrong the actual science-y bits actually are). Help? 2. Am I misunderstanding something, or does the man actually think that IQ tests measure intelligence? In the year of our lord 2014?
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Strategic Tea posted:E: And come to think of it, that's probably why people like Yud so often turn to poo poo like utilitarianism.
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What are the problems with traditional utilitarianism, anyways? I thought anyone approaching a moral problem from the perspective of "what helps the most people" rather than "what someone in authority said we should do" is utilitarian.
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Cardiovorax posted:On the bottom line, most utilitarians are basically hedonists: the desired outcome is pleasure and wellbeing. As to the issue of flexibility - perhaps the same could be said of (Then again, I have seen people claim that On Liberty justifies political censorship. Then again *again*, they were B.A students, so there's a fair chance they haven't actually read the text)
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Cardiovorax posted:Frankly, I thought the constant anime references did a much better job of making future humanity look repulsive and horrible. Sexual consent is a matter of interpersonal boundaries, which vary between cultures as much as between individuals. I can conceive of a highly moral culture where forced sexual interaction is a more severe form of pushing someone down and tickling them silly. Hobo By Design posted:Utilitarianism absolutely does define utility! quote:Pleasure, as an end, justifies itself. "Why do you want to enjoy yourself" is a nonsense question. Or, you know, whatever sort of hypothetical "enjoy slavery" example I could come up with without confessing to having read Methods of Rationality.
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SubG posted:This is almost always something that happens when a work of fiction is just a political or social thesis, and all the characters just sock puppets for the author. The sex scenes in Ayn Rand novels, for example, are just painful to read, even when they aren't rapey (which they frequently are; ultrarationalists seem to have a thing for rape for some goddamn reason) because it's always a couple of boring robots announcing to each other the value proposition each party is getting out of the transaction they're about to engage in. I've read sexier spreadsheets.
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