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Past surveys show that most LessWrongers are consequentialists, and many are also effective altruism advocates. What do they think of infinities in ethics?
As I've intuitively always favoured some kind of negative utilitarianism, this has caused me some confusion.
I'll come in to say yes I agree these problems are confusing, although my ethics are weird and I'm only kind if a consequentialist.
(I identify as amoral, in practice what it means is I act like an egoist but give consequentialist answers to ethical questions)
What I've noticed is that this has caused me to slide towards prioritizing issues that affect me personally (meaning that I care somewhat more about climate change and less about animal rights than I have previously done).
Doesn't anthropics strongly push us to figure that the universe is infinite?
I suppose so, and that's where the problems for consequentialism arise.