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10 Aug 2022 Conversations with Tyler William MacAskill on Effective Altruism, Moral Progress, and Cultural Innovation
“Yes, that is my view, and it ends up looking very similar to what is known as pluralism because I end up paying attention to different sorts of moral reasons.”
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- 10 Aug 2022
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…The true moral view can be a probabilistic assemblage of the different things you think might matter. If you go just a little bit more meta with pluralism, it encompasses what you think. Yes, that is my view, and it ends up looking very similar to what is known as pluralism because I end up paying attention to different sorts of moral reasons. But I think that the actual moral truth might be quite simple, whereas the pluralist, in terms of first-order moral theorizing rather than the meta theorizing that I’m proposing, says that moral reality might be really very complex or messy. If we’re assessing the well-being of nonhuman animals, should we use preference utilitarianism or hedonistic utilitarianism? Because it will make a big difference. We’re not sure all these animals are happy. They may live lives of terror, but we’re pretty sure they want to stay alive.…
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