Tag: ethics
4 posts tagged "ethics".
The study of how one ought to live and act — what makes a life good and a choice right. The blog draws mostly on the virtue tradition running from Aristotle, who located the good life in eudaimonia and the cultivation of character, through the Stoicism of Seneca and Marcus Aurelius, who tied virtue to living in accordance with reason and nature. Against this it weighs the consequentialist strand behind effective altruism, which asks coldly how to do the most good with limited resources. Ethics here is less a set of rules than a practical question about meaning-making and how to spend a finite life well.
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Highlights From the Comments on AI Doom
My coming-out post on why I'm no longer an AI doomer seems to have struck a nerve.
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Book Review: The Beginning of Infinity
Pound-for-pound The Beginning of Infinity has to be the densest collection of batshit-crazy ideas I've ever come across.
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Make Frugality Great Again!
The modern practice of frugality has become a funhouse-mirror perversion of the original virtue. What happened?
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Fuck-You Money Part II
For a refresher on the importance of fuck-you money, go peel off a $100 bill, and subject yourself to the silent, brooding judgment of Benjamin Franklin.
