Thanks for this post. I think it provides a useful perspective, and I’ve sent it to a non-EA friend of mine who’s interested in EA, but concerned by the way that it (or utilitarianism, really) can seem like it’d be all-consuming.
I also found this post quite reminiscent of Purchase Fuzzies and Utilons Separately (which I also liked). And something that I think might be worth reading alongside this is Act utilitarianism: criterion of rightness vs. decision procedure.
Thanks for this post. I think it provides a useful perspective, and I’ve sent it to a non-EA friend of mine who’s interested in EA, but concerned by the way that it (or utilitarianism, really) can seem like it’d be all-consuming.
I also found this post quite reminiscent of Purchase Fuzzies and Utilons Separately (which I also liked). And something that I think might be worth reading alongside this is Act utilitarianism: criterion of rightness vs. decision procedure.