The tango of ethics: intuition, rationality and the prevention of suffering
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| adam_text | Contents Acknowledgements viii 1. Ethics as an Authentic Dance The path of truth and compassion Post-Battle assessment Can ethics help us improve the world? Rethinking ethics The tango of ethics Can one be too transparent about ethics? Adjusting priorities 1 1 2 4 8 10 13 14 2. Intuition and Rationality Intuition and its roots The role of rationality Managing expectations: the limits of rationality 15 15 16 19 3. Ethics: What is the Question? Understanding oughtism Consequentialism: impact matters Utilitarianism: impact on wellbeing matters Deontology: follow the rules Virtue ethics: be good Can any one theory be correct? 21 21 27 29 31 32 32 4. Ethics and Subjective Experience Hedonic states and wellbeing Preference satisfaction Interests Suffering The notion of urgency The significance of extreme and unbearable suffering Buddhism and craving Voluntary suffering Happiness and wellbeing Capturing the dynamics of hedonic states Absence of suffering: from hedonic zero to bliss 36 36 39 40 41 43 45 49 49 51 55 56
60 60 Evaluating Value The confusion about value and the compulsion to create it The fundamental ethical asymmetry between suffering and happiness Negative utilitarianism 64 67 6. The Map and the Territory The mathematics of suffering Measuring suffering The hedonic delusion Lost in aggregation 72 73 75 76 79 7. Determining Priorities Intensity vs. instances: the essence of uncertainty Comparing physical pain and psychological suffering Unbearable suffering as an ethical tipping point Expected value and cause prioritisation 82 82 86 88 93 8. Suffering and the Illusion of Separateness The true nature of personal identity The Golden Rule Rawls s veil of ignorance Anti-speciesism Awakening awareness 95 95 99 100 101 102 9. Our Complex Relationship with Suffering The fleetingness of momentary decisions Voluntary personal sacrifices don t justify imposing suffering on others Tolerating the intolerable The need for systems that are more rational and compassionate than we are The intuition towards fairness and against the concentration of suffering 104 104 5. 106 107 113 114
10. Existence A life worth living Escaping the Repugnant Conclusion Why non-existence isn t a bad thing Reducing existential risk: an intuition with conditions Preserving consciousness 118 118 121 122 123 127 11. A Holistic Ethical Framework Key principles xNU+ How xNU+ compares to prioritarianism How xNU+ responds to common objections to negative utilitarianism Consistency: being truthful and rational How everything is connected by utilitarianism How obsessive utilitarianism can be self-defeating 129 129 131 137 12. Current and Potential Causes of Intense Suffering Human suffering Abuse and torture of non-human animals Nature and wild animal suffering Insect and other invertebrate suffering Far future suffering Artificial/machine suffering 146 146 147 148 149 155 156 13. A Tangible Tango: Resolving Ethical Conflicts Helping those closest vs. helping strangers War Animal experimentation The grey zone of animal exploitation Veganism vs. reducing suffering: is eating animal products ever justifiable? Eating oysters and other brainless invertebrates Painlessly killing happy animals Euthanasia of suffering animals Euthanasia and assisted suicide in humans Saving lives vs. preventing suffering Anti-natalism 159 161 162 164 168 137 139 140 140 169 172 174 176 177 179 181
The meat-eater problem 182 Preserving the environment vs. reducing wild animal suffering 183 14. From Ethics to Action Reflections on the ethical tango Creating a new suffering metric for health economics Impacting the far future Designing compassionate blueprints for governance based on xNU+ ethics The last tango: embedding xNU+ ethics into AGI Balancing personal initiative and collective action Activism and the desire to see impact How much empathy do we need? The fractal-like nature of ethical action Spreading love, empathy, rationality and compassion 186 186 187 190 192 195 203 207 208 208 209 References 211 Index 230
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Contents Acknowledgements viii 1. Ethics as an Authentic Dance The path of truth and compassion Post-Battle assessment Can ethics help us improve the world? Rethinking ethics The tango of ethics Can one be too transparent about ethics? Adjusting priorities 1 1 2 4 8 10 13 14 2. Intuition and Rationality Intuition and its roots The role of rationality Managing expectations: the limits of rationality 15 15 16 19 3. Ethics: What is the Question? Understanding oughtism Consequentialism: impact matters Utilitarianism: impact on wellbeing matters Deontology: follow the rules Virtue ethics: be good Can any one theory be correct? 21 21 27 29 31 32 32 4. Ethics and Subjective Experience Hedonic states and wellbeing Preference satisfaction Interests Suffering The notion of urgency The significance of extreme and unbearable suffering Buddhism and craving Voluntary suffering Happiness and wellbeing Capturing the dynamics of hedonic states Absence of suffering: from hedonic zero to bliss 36 36 39 40 41 43 45 49 49 51 55 56
60 60 Evaluating Value The confusion about value and the compulsion to create it The fundamental ethical asymmetry between suffering and happiness Negative utilitarianism 64 67 6. The Map and the Territory The mathematics of suffering Measuring suffering The hedonic delusion Lost in aggregation 72 73 75 76 79 7. Determining Priorities Intensity vs. instances: the essence of uncertainty Comparing physical pain and psychological suffering Unbearable suffering as an ethical tipping point Expected value and cause prioritisation 82 82 86 88 93 8. Suffering and the Illusion of Separateness The true nature of personal identity The Golden Rule Rawls's veil of ignorance Anti-speciesism Awakening awareness 95 95 99 100 101 102 9. Our Complex Relationship with Suffering The fleetingness of momentary decisions Voluntary personal sacrifices don't justify imposing suffering on others Tolerating the intolerable The need for systems that are more rational and compassionate than we are The intuition towards fairness and against the concentration of suffering 104 104 5. 106 107 113 114
10. Existence A life worth living Escaping the Repugnant Conclusion Why non-existence isn't a bad thing Reducing existential risk: an intuition with conditions Preserving consciousness 118 118 121 122 123 127 11. A Holistic Ethical Framework Key principles xNU+ How xNU+ compares to prioritarianism How xNU+ responds to common objections to negative utilitarianism Consistency: being truthful and rational How everything is connected by utilitarianism How obsessive utilitarianism can be self-defeating 129 129 131 137 12. Current and Potential Causes of Intense Suffering Human suffering Abuse and torture of non-human animals Nature and wild animal suffering Insect and other invertebrate suffering Far future suffering Artificial/machine suffering 146 146 147 148 149 155 156 13. A Tangible Tango: Resolving Ethical Conflicts Helping those closest vs. helping strangers War Animal experimentation The grey zone of animal exploitation Veganism vs. reducing suffering: is eating animal products ever justifiable? Eating oysters and other brainless invertebrates Painlessly killing happy animals Euthanasia of suffering animals Euthanasia and assisted suicide in humans Saving lives vs. preventing suffering Anti-natalism 159 161 162 164 168 137 139 140 140 169 172 174 176 177 179 181
The meat-eater problem 182 Preserving the environment vs. reducing wild animal suffering 183 14. From Ethics to Action Reflections on the ethical tango Creating a new suffering metric for health economics Impacting the far future Designing compassionate blueprints for governance based on xNU+ ethics The last tango: embedding xNU+ ethics into AGI Balancing personal initiative and collective action Activism and the desire to see impact How much empathy do we need? The fractal-like nature of ethical action Spreading love, empathy, rationality and compassion 186 186 187 190 192 195 203 207 208 208 209 References 211 Index 230 |
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