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EA isn't a form of act utilitarianism. Though EA certainly has a consequentialist flavor, it isn't the case that all (or even most?) EAs endorse utilitarianism
by caturopath 3y ago
EA isn't a form of act utilitarianism. Though EA certainly has a consequentialist flavor, it isn't the case that all (or even most?) EAs endorse utilitarianism (utilitarians aren't the only ones who care about scale). For example, Holden Karnofsky is explicitly non-utilitarian and Will MacAskill advocates making decisions based on considering (fundamentally, not just for optics) non-utilitarian ethical systems, though he is more utilitarian than someone like Karnofsky.