Vulture comments on 2014 Less Wrong Census/Survey - Call For Critiques/Questions - Less Wrong

18 Post author: Yvain 11 October 2014 06:39AM

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Comment author: Vulture 16 October 2014 05:55:42PM 2 points [-]

You should add a question that asks what model of population ethics they support (Additive utility, Average utility, Other, Non-utilitarian, Don't know).

Comment author: [deleted] 16 October 2014 09:33:43PM *  1 point [-]

That's a good thought. But many versions of utilitarianism reach wild conclusions, so I like better "Do you support actions or policies that lower the global population growth rate, increase it, or neither?"

[Added] But I don't care much.

Comment author: Vulture 17 October 2014 01:17:12AM 0 points [-]

I think the theory question would be much more interesting, honestly. But if it's all going into the super bonus question section anyway, I wouldn't mind having both.