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from More Everything Forever

p197 "The whole project of utilitarianism smacks of a kind of ethical Taylorism: confusing metrics with the reality they imperfectly capture" Nice.

from Ultimate Meaning: We Don't Have It, We Can't Get It, and We Should Be Very, Very Sad

Yes this is demonic utilitarianism . Running can't be for itself, it must be in pursuit of some abstracted, refined quantity like "exhilaration".

utilitarianism

18 May 2023 - 17 Jun 2023

The core bad idea behind Rationalism and much else. See optimizing

Why longtermism is the world’s most dangerous secular credo | Aeon Essays longermism as a particular deployment of utilitarian ideas for ends that sound lofty but are really dangerous.