Felicifia: a Utilitarianism Forum

11 Post author: DanielLC 07 November 2011 01:37PM

Utilitarianism seems to be a common theme on this site. I suggest checking out felicifia.org, a Utilitarianism forum. That is all.

Comments (21)

Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 05 November 2011 02:51:51PM 8 points [-]

Thanks for the link! There's a bunch of interesting stuff on here. For instance, here's a subforum on Felicifia that deals with futurism and xrisk:

Utilitarian future Will we transcend our human bodies? Extend our lives? Create superhuman artificial intelligence? Mitigate existential risks? etc.

There's currently a thread in it about whether SIAI is the most optimal charity.

Comment author: lukeprog 07 November 2011 03:01:12PM 5 points [-]

For example, l have an ongoing discussion on Friendly AI and utilitarianism at Felicifa.

Comment author: Wei_Dai 04 November 2011 06:47:14AM 4 points [-]

I mentioned Felicifa in a previous post. Unfortunately the Felicifa post I was replying to has disappeared, and can't be found by Google either. I suggest that whoever is in charge ought to make a greater effort to preserve past discussions.

Comment author: Pablo_Stafforini 02 March 2012 03:52:09AM 3 points [-]

There are two Felicifias: the oridinal felicifia.com, which went extinct around 2007, and the current felicifia.org. Seth Baum, the creator of the original Felicifia, kindly sent me the files with all the original content. I am working with others at the current Felicifia to make this material publicly available.

Comment author: Baldcat 04 November 2011 09:43:50PM 3 points [-]
Comment author: Pablo_Stafforini 09 September 2012 08:34:14PM 0 points [-]

Thanks to the efforts of Seth Baum and James Evans, the old Felicifia site is now back online. Please note that some of the links are not working because the site wasn't archived in its entirety. You can also browse the site by directory structure.

Comment author: Baldcat 04 November 2011 04:07:29AM *  4 points [-]

In HTML, URLs must begin with the protocol or they will be assumed to be relative paths.

Change your code to <a href="http://felicifia.org">felicifia.org</a>.

Comment author: DanielLC 04 November 2011 04:10:36AM 1 point [-]

Fixed.

Thanks.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 07 November 2011 12:47:38PM *  3 points [-]

Should this be in Main? I noticed it was moved here, but don't know who did it and why.

Edit: OK, moving back to Discussion, unless something new comes up.

Comment author: DanielLC 21 November 2011 05:34:00AM 0 points [-]

I did it, and I initially planned to put it in main, but put it here because I was unsure of my writing skills. I didn't think it would have to go in discussion.

Comment author: rabidchicken 04 November 2011 04:50:04AM 2 points [-]

Good link, typo in title, have a good day, thank you for posting on Lesswrong.

Comment author: VNKKET 04 November 2011 07:38:27PM *  3 points [-]

Is this comment supposed to be pleasant or unpleasant?

Edit: I asked because "have a good day, thank you for posting" is often used to mean "shut up", but now that I've looked at your past comments, I assume you're being friendly.

Comment author: DanielLC 05 November 2011 12:04:40AM 1 point [-]

typo in title

Fixed.

Thanks.

Comment author: Solvent 07 November 2011 10:09:55AM *  1 point [-]

Yvain links to this in his brilliant Consequentialism FAQ.

Edit: Yvain not Gwern. Sorry.

Comment author: Nisan 07 November 2011 11:24:37AM *  10 points [-]

That's Yvain, not gwern.

Comment author: Solvent 08 November 2011 05:13:21AM *  0 points [-]

Of course. Thanks for pointing it out.

Comment author: Baldcat 04 November 2011 04:10:40AM 1 point [-]
Comment author: DanielLC 05 November 2011 10:27:10PM 0 points [-]

Sort of. I was hoping someone else would write it for me. I suck at writing.

Comment author: dbaupp 06 November 2011 04:17:30AM 4 points [-]

I suck at writing.

Don't say that, you are only reinforcing that cached self. A good way to improve your writing is to just do it, see what comes out, and iterate.

Comment author: DanielLC 06 November 2011 06:42:40AM 1 point [-]

I don't like writing enough to do it enough. Besides, programming is more awesome anyway.

Comment author: dbaupp 06 November 2011 10:34:14AM *  1 point [-]

That's understandable, but it is very easy for it to become a self-fulfilling prophecy. So I try to avoid saying "I suck at x" for any x, unless there is a very good reason to (like "I'm not very good at surgery").