Utilitarian comments on [Link] Values Spreading is Often More Important than Extinction Risk - Less Wrong

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Comment author: lukeprog 07 April 2013 08:30:02PM 1 point [-]

Relevant only to some parts of Tomasik's essay:

Ord, Why I'm Not a Negative Utilitarian

Comment author: Utilitarian 08 April 2013 10:48:22AM 4 points [-]

Thanks, Luke. See also this follow-up discussion to Ord's essay.

As you suggest with your "some" qualifier, my essay that benthamite shared doesn't make any assumptions about negative utilitarianism. I merely inserted parentheticals about my own views into it to avoid giving the impression that I'm personally a positive-leaning utilitarian.

Comment author: lukeprog 08 April 2013 05:09:23PM 1 point [-]

Nice discussion there! Thanks for the link.