I'm trying to get a slightly better grasp of utilitarianism as it is understood in rat/EA circles, and here's my biggest confusion at the moment. How do you actually define "utility", not in the sense of how to compute it, but in the sense of specifying wtf are you even...
As of 2022, humans have a life expectancy of ~80 years and a hard limit of ~120. Most rationalists I know agree that dying is a bad thing and at minimum we should have an option to live considerably longer and free of the "diseases of the age", if not...
Epistemic Status: Speculations on top of well established theories. Introduction As the conventional memetic wisdom goes, “after decades and decades of research, the science sill have no idea how the human mind works”. As anyone passingly familiar with the relevant fields of science knows, this is of course a load...