Karma is the crudest possible measure of reception, and one that not everyone pays any attention to. Your posts are also getting a poor reception in terms of the replies they receive. What, if anything, you choose to do about that is up to you. What do you want? What is your purpose?
The general theme of your downvoted posts has been “don’t be rational, don’t be utilitarian, don’t be consequentialist, because it doesn’t work.” Unless you have something better to propose, what’s the point? Besides which, your argument is a consequentialist one, and if you’re down on rationality, why are you giving an argument at all? There are ways to think better, and the problems of utilitarianism are well-known, both here and the wider philosophical community.
For example, Eliezer has recommended: “Go three-quarters of the way from deontology to utilitarianism and then stop. You are now in the right place. Stay there at least until you have become a god.” You have recommended nothing, and seem to be unaware of what has already been said here on these topics.
Karma is the crudest possible measure of reception, and one that not everyone pays any attention to. Your posts are also getting a poor reception in terms of the replies they receive. What, if anything, you choose to do about that is up to you. What do you want? What is your purpose?
The general theme of your downvoted posts has been “don’t be rational, don’t be utilitarian, don’t be consequentialist, because it doesn’t work.” Unless you have something better to propose, what’s the point? Besides which, your argument is a consequentialist one, and if you’re down on rationality, why are you giving an argument at all? There are ways to think better, and the problems of utilitarianism are well-known, both here and the wider philosophical community.
For example, Eliezer has recommended: “Go three-quarters of the way from deontology to utilitarianism and then stop. You are now in the right place. Stay there at least until you have become a god.” You have recommended nothing, and seem to be unaware of what has already been said here on these topics.