Voted for “lean toward consequentialism”. As someone once put, I consider the “fundamental” rules to be consequentialist¹, but some of the approximations I use because the fundamental rules are infeasible to calculate from scratch every time resemble deontology or virtue ethics, much like QFT and GR are time-reversal symmetric but thermodynamics isn’t. Also, ethical injunctions (i.e. fudge factors in my prior probability that certain behaviours will harm someone to compensate for cognitive biases) and TDT-like game-/decision-theoretical considerations make some of my choices resemble deontology, and a term in my utility function for how awesome I am make some of my choices resemble virtue ethics.
I assume that, despite the name, people here don’t take consequentialism to imply strictly CDT. I still think that in the True Prisoner’s Dilemma against a paperclip maximizer known to use the same decision algorithms as ourselves it’s immoral to defect.
I assume that, despite the name, people here don’t take consequentialism to imply strictly CDT. I still think that in the True Prisoner’s Dilemma against a paperclip maximizer known to use the same decision algorithms as ourselves it’s immoral to defect.
May the reason why so many philosophers don’t vote for consquentialism is that they’re thinking about pure CDTical act consequentialism?
Voted for “lean toward consequentialism”. As someone once put, I consider the “fundamental” rules to be consequentialist¹, but some of the approximations I use because the fundamental rules are infeasible to calculate from scratch every time resemble deontology or virtue ethics, much like QFT and GR are time-reversal symmetric but thermodynamics isn’t. Also, ethical injunctions (i.e. fudge factors in my prior probability that certain behaviours will harm someone to compensate for cognitive biases) and TDT-like game-/decision-theoretical considerations make some of my choices resemble deontology, and a term in my utility function for how awesome I am make some of my choices resemble virtue ethics.
I assume that, despite the name, people here don’t take consequentialism to imply strictly CDT. I still think that in the True Prisoner’s Dilemma against a paperclip maximizer known to use the same decision algorithms as ourselves it’s immoral to defect.
May the reason why so many philosophers don’t vote for consquentialism is that they’re thinking about pure CDTical act consequentialism?