Jacob1

Ought We to Be Do­ing More Than We Are?

• Jacob1 3 Feb 2024 21:29 UTC

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  in reply to: nathan98000’s comment on: A re­sponse to an at­tempted re­but­tal of max­imis­ing ethics

  This is a fair criticism, my construction of this post was fairly rushed and I did consider this as an issue with it myself. I think what I am trying to get at is that it is all well and good to throw doubt upon Singer’s principle with another thought experiment, but what is required of the philosopher is also to provide grounding or to think about grounding upon which the intuitions pointed to by a thought experiment are consistent—Singer does this, but I do not think that Timmerman does.

• Jacob1 3 Feb 2024 21:27 UTC

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  in reply to: Arepo’s comment on: A re­sponse to an at­tempted re­but­tal of max­imis­ing ethics

  I have never heard of this term but I am quite familiar with the idea! I am sympathetic to the position, but feel it too counter-intuitive to suppose that there are no rights or wrongs, or at least that prescribing some rights and wrongs (dos and don’ts) as distinct from things that are merely better or worse is useful.

• Jacob1 21 Dec 2023 15:16 UTC

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  in reply to: SummaryBot’s comment on: A propo­si­tion for the mod­ifi­ca­tion of our epistemology

  I have proposed that we survey the population—not the consensus amongst experts—because I have written about metaphysical claims about which there is little consensus amongst experts, or have at least tried to.

  I wonder; was this summary generated by AI?

• Jacob1 29 Jan 2023 14:16 UTC

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  on: What cog­ni­tive bi­ases feel like from the inside

  I feel I tend towards self-deprecation which is a bias unconsidered, but that is just because I have depression and am abnormal in this respect to most (this statement is supposed to be funny in its irony—I apologise). I genuinely identfy with a lot of these self-inflating and other-deprecating tendencies, and this was very enlightening as I will now have in mind to identify them and the extent to which they are flawed.

• Jacob1 29 Jan 2023 13:43 UTC

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  in reply to: WilliamKiely’s comment on: Why you think you’re right—even when you’re wrong

  thank you!

• Jacob1 29 Jan 2023 13:33 UTC

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  on: On Caring

  • An interesting case against our vacuous feelings towards being calculating about moral problems – we are not equipped to feel the weight of the world of the scale of the issues, so numbers are necessary in order to inform us as to what we should do.

  • An essential first reading for any aspiring philanthropists.

• Jacob1 27 Jan 2023 21:34 UTC

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  on: Four Ideas You Already Agree With

  “Caring about equality means treating all death and suffering as a tragedy, not just that caused by specific diseases that we — by cruel twists of fate that thrust them into our field of view — happen to notice.”—very good.

• Jacob1 27 Jan 2023 15:06 UTC

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  on: About this handbook

  I like the wording of “Be aware of our privilege and the seriousness of these issues”. I think that sections encapsulated what this is about and what attracted me to the movement.