@shervin @pmarca: Utilitarianism is bad: It encourages mortal men to play God at levels of complexity that they can't possibly comprehend. It should be banned

@shervin @pmarca: Utilitarianism is bad: It encourages mortal men to play God at levels of complexity that they can't possibly comprehend. It should be banned for the greater good >> “earning to give,” the idea that people like Bankman-Fried should do whatever it takes to make a lot of money so they can give it away. To amass his billions, Bankman-Fried allegedly defrauded his customers, and critics have said his downfall shows that EA is vulnerable to a myopia that allows the ends to justify illegal means. Among EAs themselves, however, the most salient criticism is subtler: that living at the logical extremes of the ideology is impractical and a recipe for misery. In buddhism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Way https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Way middle way is advised for this very reason