Yvain comments on The Trouble With "Good" - Less Wrong

83 Post author: Yvain 17 April 2009 02:07AM

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Comment author: Yvain 17 April 2009 03:34:12AM *  7 points [-]

Uh.....er....maybe!

I'm familiar with Bentham, Mill, Singer, Eliezer, and random snippets of utilitarian theory I picked up here and there. I'm not confident enough with my taxonomy to use quite so many adjectives with confidence. I will add that article to the list of things to read.

I agree that your course sounds awesome. If you hear anything particularly enlightening, please turn it into an LW post.

Comment author: Alicorn 17 April 2009 03:51:48AM *  5 points [-]

I may well do that! Thank you for asking.

Edit: I just made a post linking something called two-tier consequentialism to a post of Eliezer's.