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Lukas_Gloor comments on 'Effective Altruism' as utilitarian equivocation. - Less Wrong Discussion

1 Post author: Dias 24 November 2013 06:35PM

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Comment author: Lukas_Gloor 24 November 2013 07:09:31PM *  1 point [-]

Value is complex. Helping people is good, but so is truth, and justice, and freedom, and beauty, and loyalty, and fairness, and honor, and fraternity, and tradition, and many other things.

I think your critique would have a higher chance of improving (in your view) something if you framed it as a concern about your personal values not being included adequately, rather than a two-line (plus an overused link that is begging the question as well) "refutation" of utilitarianism that also implicitly includes the controversial premise of moral realism.

Comment author: Dias 24 November 2013 09:04:56PM 2 points [-]

The truth of utilitarianism doesn't matter to my argument. A strategy can be intellectually dishonest even if it's goal is correct.