AngryParsley comments on That Magical Click - Less Wrong

58 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 January 2010 04:35PM

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Comment author: wuwei 22 January 2010 11:58:04PM 2 points [-]

There's the consequentialist/utilitarian click, and the intelligence explosion click, and the life-is-good/death-is-bad click, and the cryonics click.

I can find a number of blog posts from you clearly laying out the arguments in favor of each of those clicks except the consequentialism/utilitarianism one.

What do you mean by "consequentialism" and "utilitarianism" and why do you think they are not just right but obviously right?

Comment author: AngryParsley 23 January 2010 11:05:31AM 2 points [-]

Hmm... you probably want to read Circular Altruism. There are different forms of utilitarian consequentialism. The LW wiki has a blurb with links to other useful posts.