Why I'm Not a Negative Utilitarian by Toby Ord

Negative Utilitarianism (NU) is treated as a non-starter in mainstream philosophical circles, and to the best of my knowledge has never been supported by any ...

Toby Ord, "Why I'm not a negative utilitarian" : r/philosophy - Reddit

A negative utilitarian would still hold that no real human life was worth starting in the first place, because all lives inevitably result in suffering.

Why I'm Not a Negative Utilitarian - Socrethics

In his essay Why I'm Not a Negative Utilitarian, Toby Ord shows himself surprised to see that some of his friends and acquaintances in the effective ...

Point-by-point critique of Ord's “Why I'm Not a Negative Utilitarian”

Ord defines “Weak Practically-Negative Utilitarianism” in a more impartial way, namely as the view that “in many common cases it is more ...

Thoughts on Ord's “Why I'm Not a Negative Utilitarian”

In 2013, Toby Ord published an essay called “Why I'm Not a Negative Utilitarian” on his website. 1Archived Sep. 24, 2015. He tries to convince ...

Why I'm Not a Negative Utilitarian by Toby Ord - Goodreads

Community Reviews ... Profile Image for Simon Ziswiler. ... I had to adjust my review here a bit. Appreciate Toby Ord's work immensely and he had a powerful ...

Why do you reject negative utilitarianism? - Effective Altruism Forum

Therefore, it is a straw man argument that NUs don't value life or positive states, because NUs value them instrumentally, which may translate ...

Why do you reject negative utilitarianism? - LessWrong

I reject impartiality on the grounds that I'm a personal identity and therefore not impartial. The utility of others is not my utility, ...

Toby Ord's Main Argument Against Negative Utilitarianism Is Correct

A life where you only care about the things negative utilitarians care about seems like a sad, empty sort of life—one which doesn't have most of ...

Why I'm Not A Negative Utilitarian - Rockstar Research

Toby Ord recently observed: “I have been surprised to see that some of my friends and acquaintances in the effective altruism community identify as Negative ...

How would you argue that negative utilitarianism is ethically correct?

“Utility” doesn't mean “useful” but “inherent goodness.” What is good not for the sake of something else but in and of itself? Happiness is only ...

Books by Toby Ord (Author of Moral Uncertainty) - Goodreads

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Negative utilitarianism - Wikipedia

Negative utilitarianism is a form of negative consequentialism that can be described as the view that people should minimize the total amount of aggregate ...

What are your thoughts on the 'benevolent world destroyer ... - Quora

Should the “benevolent world destroyer” argument have any more force against negative utilitarianism? Either way, a benevolent superintelligence ...

Research - Toby Ord

There are many ways of helping to improve our world, but they are not created equal. ... Why I'm not a negative utilitarian. How to be a consequentialist about ...

The dismal dismissal of suffering-focused views - Magnus Vinding

In his essay “Why I'm Not a Negative Utilitarian” (2013), Toby Ord ... Ord also writes that the view that happiness does not contribute ...

Lexicality between good and bad - Center on Long-Term Risk

Toby Ord says that Lexical Threshold Negative Utilitarianism involves a “very strange discontinuity. ... Ord, “Why I'm Not a Negative Utilitarian.” (back); For ...

Toby Ord's Main Argument Against Negative Utilitarianism Is Correct

I'll admit to not having much experience with negative utilitarianism, but at a more meta level, I've become suspicious of motivations ...

Toby Ord - Unpolished Ideas

An explanation of why I think Negative Utilitarianism is not a plausible moral theory, and how other theories can better fit the intuitions that lead people to ...

Magnus Vinding, Author at Center for Reducing Suffering

Posted in Negative Utilitarianism, Suffering-Focused Ethics. The following is a reply to Toby Ord's “Why I'm Not a Negative Utilitarian” (2013). Ord's essay ...