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CarlShulman comments on How can we get more and better LW contrarians? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: CarlShulman 08 May 2012 09:35:04AM *  12 points [-]

I made a post on a personal blog on one of the more significant points against utilitarianism in my view. It's very rough, but I could cross-post it to Discussion if people wanted.

Comment author: cousin_it 08 May 2012 10:40:46AM 5 points [-]

I really like how you frame the choice between altruism and selfishness as a range of different "original positions" an agent may assume. Thanks a lot, and please do more of this kind of work!