timtyler comments on The Preference Utilitarian’s Time Inconsistency Problem - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 15 January 2010 09:17:38AM *  3 points [-]

Since you found our agreement unexpected, it may give you a better perspective on this post to know that while it's mostly addressed to utilitarians, I'm not a utilitarian myself. I do have a certain amount of intellectual sympathy towards utilitarianism, and would like to see its most coherent positions, and hear its strongest arguments, so my post was written in that spirit.

I'd also be quite interested in exploring other potentially viable approaches to moral philosophy. Given that you consider utilitarianism to be naive and verging on silly, what approaches do you find promising?

Comment author: timtyler 03 June 2010 11:29:25PM 0 points [-]