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  1. bostonreview.net

    The New Moral Mathematics. In his new book, philosopher William MacAskill implies that humanity's long-term survival matters more than preventing short-term suffering and death. ... When you do this, you find that tiny chances of extinction swamp the moral mathematics. If you could save a million lives today or shave 0.0001 percent off the ...
    • Kieran Setiya

      The New Moral Mathematics. In his new book, philosopher William MacAskill implies that humanity's long-term survival matters more than preventing short-term suffering and death. Kieran Setiya. The Personal Is Philosophical. On the first English translation of Wittgenstein's early private notebooks.

  2. reflectivealtruism.com

    2. Kieran Setiya, "The new moral mathematics" Kieran Setiya is Professor of Philosophy at MIT. In addition to his wide-ranging philosophical work, Setiya knows a thing or two about public philosophy: his latest books Life is hard and Midlife have been reviewed in publications such as The Economist and the New York Times. He blogs at Under ...
  3. 3quarksdaily.com

    The New Moral Mathematics. Posted on Friday, Aug 19, 2022 11:17AM by S. Abbas Raza. ... —Ben Orlin, author of four best-selling mathematics books: ... —Andrew Sullivan, former editor of The New Republic, author of five books, überblogger.
  4. bostonreview.net

    The New Moral Mathematics. In his new book, philosopher William MacAskill implies that humanity's long-term survival matters more than preventing short-term suffering and death. Kieran Setiya. The Personal Is Philosophical. On the first English translation of Wittgenstein's early private notebooks.
  5. It certainly doesn't present the Repugnant Conclusion as desirable, but as a seemingly intractable problem that population ethics needs to solve. (Parfit actually raises several different ethical problems in the same section, but the RC is the one that attracts the attention of people who love mathematics a little too much.)
  6. thedailyeudemon.com

    When you do this, you find that tiny chances of extinction swamp the moral mathematics. If you could save a million lives today or shave 0.0001 percent off the probability of premature human extinction—a one in a million chance of saving at least 8 trillion lives—you should do the latter, allowing a million people to die.
  7. The New Moral Mathematics. Article; Aug 15, 2022; #Philosophy #Math Kieran Setiya @KieranSetiya (Author) Follow. www.bostonreview.net Read on www.bostonreview.net 1 Recommender. 1 Mention. Time is big, too—even if we just think on the timescale of a species. We've been around for approximately 300,000 years. ...
  8. despardes.com

    In his new book, philosopher William MacAskill implies that humanity's long-term survival matters more than preventing short-term suffering and death. ... When you do this, you find that tiny chances of extinction swamp the moral mathematics. If you could save a million lives today or shave 0.0001 percent off the probability of premature ...
  9. It is true that bringing a new life into existence is neutral, but only until said life start to suffer or become rotten/evil/the next Hitler. We cant really argue about sentient existence in a vacuum, quality matters, if life is to be largely hellish, we might as well not have it. What is the point of existing if not for the positive experience?

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