Fredrik comments on Savulescu: "Genetically enhance humanity or face extinction" - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Fredrik 12 January 2010 02:59:02PM 0 points [-]

I definitely seem to have a tendency to utilitarian thinking. Could you give me a reading tip on the ethical philosophy you subscribe to, so that I can evaluate it more in-depth?

Comment author: mattnewport 12 January 2010 09:30:26PM 1 point [-]

The closest named ethical philosophy I've found to mine is something like Ethical Egoism. It's not close enough to what I believe that I'm comfortable self identifying as an ethical egoist however. I've posted quite a bit here in the past on the topic - a search for my user name and 'ethics' using the custom search will turn up quite a few posts. I've been thinking about writing up a more complete summary at some point but haven't done so yet.