Yes, there’s this weird class of arguments against consequentialism where people say “but following decision procedure X (e.g. blindly maximising short term consequences) will lead to worse outcomes!”. Yes, and that’s a good consequentialist argument for using a different decision procedure!
Perhaps someone needs to write the “Maximisation is not easy and if you think it is you will probably do it very badly” post.
Yes, there’s this weird class of arguments against consequentialism where people say “but following decision procedure X (e.g. blindly maximising short term consequences) will lead to worse outcomes!”. Yes, and that’s a good consequentialist argument for using a different decision procedure!
Perhaps someone needs to write the “Maximisation is not easy and if you think it is you will probably do it very badly” post.