SoullessAutomaton comments on Survey Results - Less Wrong

48 Post author: Yvain 12 May 2009 10:09PM

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Comment author: SoullessAutomaton 13 May 2009 11:31:24PM *  9 points [-]

First while 73.4% of responders are consequentialists and only 9% deontologists, at the same time 45% of responders are libertarians. While labels like that are vague, libertarianism is in most versions highly deontologist ideology, and cares about processes and not results as such.

The most straightforward types of both libertarianism and utilitarianism take the form of systems that can be logically built from a base of few, powerful, elegant axiomatic principles. This type of system appeals deeply to mathematicians and engineers, hence both the large intersection and the high representation here.