Versión en español Below I list what I think are some fallacies used to deceive oneself. They are similar to cognitive biases or argumentative fallacies …
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Utilitarian Artificial General Intelligence (UAGI)
The creation of an Utilitarian Artificial General Intelligence (UAGI), a kind of great automated global police that makes the best decisions under the criterion of …
The streetlight principle
“The things we see are the same things that are within us” –Hermann Hesse (Demian) Versión en español Most of the arguments are used to …
Interests, preferences, pain and suffering
Versión en español There are people who say that we negative utilitarians are obsessed with pain, and they are right. These people say that there …
Sentience experiment with a bottle of vodka
Versión en Español Many people read this piece and tell me that they do not agree because: – Suffering is not so bad – There …
The big lie
Spanish | French “A powerful piece.” —David Pearce People wonder about the cause of poverty when scarcity is the natural state of things. Why is …
Paneudaimonia: making plausible the idea of a happy universe, plus a technique to quit smoking
Versión en español I consider myself basically a negative utilitarian-ish. That is, I consider that to avoid suffering is the highest moral priority, and that …
Implications of a plausible Sentience Platonism in the prevention of suffering
Versión en español Even if the probability of Sentience Platonism were extremely small, while there is a higher than zero probability, and considering that is …
Five common mistakes in the interpretation of the concept of speciesism
Versión en español Speciesism is a moral preference that discriminates (positively or negatively) beings of certain species by the simple fact of belonging to that …
Ethics is a masquerade, the show must go on
Versión en Español Ethics is a masquerade, the show must go on Manuel de la Herran Gascón First version: Jan. 2017 Updated: May 2017 …