I don’t think there’s stuff directly on dissolving (criminal) justice in LessWrong posts, but I think lots of LessWrongers agree or would be receptive to non-retributive/consequentialist justice and applying methods described in the Sequences to those types of policy decisions.
Some of your positions are probably a bit more fringe (though maybe would still be fairly popular) relative to LW, but I agree with a lot of them. E.g. I’ve also been seriously considering the possibility that pain is only instrumentally bad due to ongoing mental effects, so that you can imagine situations where torture is actually neutral (except for opportunity cost). One might call this ‘positive utilitarianism’, in opposition to negative utilitarianism.
The Fun Theory Sequence might be of interest to you if you haven’t read it yet.
But anyway, awesome introduction comment! Welcome to LessWrong; I’m looking forward to hearing more of your ideas!
I don’t think there’s stuff directly on dissolving (criminal) justice in LessWrong posts, but I think lots of LessWrongers agree or would be receptive to non-retributive/consequentialist justice and applying methods described in the Sequences to those types of policy decisions.
Some of your positions are probably a bit more fringe (though maybe would still be fairly popular) relative to LW, but I agree with a lot of them. E.g. I’ve also been seriously considering the possibility that pain is only instrumentally bad due to ongoing mental effects, so that you can imagine situations where torture is actually neutral (except for opportunity cost). One might call this ‘positive utilitarianism’, in opposition to negative utilitarianism.
The Fun Theory Sequence might be of interest to you if you haven’t read it yet.
But anyway, awesome introduction comment! Welcome to LessWrong; I’m looking forward to hearing more of your ideas!