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Intelligence is a very general mental capability that, among other things, involves the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complex ideas, learn quickly and learn from experience. It is not merely book learning, a narrow academic skill, or test-taking smarts. Rather, it reflects a broader and deeper capability for comprehending our surroundings –“catching on,”“making sense” of things, or “ figuring out” what to do. - Linda Gottfredson
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WHY SOME MEN FEEL HARMED BY CIRCUMCISION
I wonder how many truly amazing people aren't what people would call "narcissistic" even prior to their accomplishments. It takes a driving passion to accomplish something amazing. Otherwise, everyone else would do it. And the people who work hard enough to be different must not view themselves as like everyone else. I don't.
Despite spending trillions of dollars on nation building, transfer payments and foreign aid, the US government still fails to prevent premature deaths in developing nations even though it only costs a few thousand dollars per life saved. The incentives and priorities of the political elite are so perverse it is disgusting. How can one not hate the state?
Having sufficient leisure time to have developed skills and hobbies is afforded by the wealth generated by capitalism.
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I have a preliminary theory of population ethics that seems to work reasonably well: total utilitarianism, with the constraint that the addition of a new person must improve the total utility of the world by more than the utility of the additional person.
For example, suppose you have a trillion rat brains on heroin that are experiencing an extremely positive level of utility. You could create a trillion-first brain, which would experience slightly less utility and also reduce the utility of the other brains, because there’d be less heroin to go around - but the new brain’s utility would still be high enough to make up for the decrease, so total utility would be greater if you created it. But total utility would increase by less than the utility of the new brain, so by this theory, you shouldn’t create it.
So this theory avoids the Repugnant Conclusion without committing to a view with other problems, like average utilitarianism.
Why make this modification to utilitarianism rather than accepting the repugnant conclusion?
Why accept the repugnant conclusion? Creating a world with lives barely worth living seems pretty bad. And creating new people at the expense of those who already exist doesn’t seem like it’s actually making the world better, even if it increases total utility, which suggests that a simple maximization of total utility isn’t quite the right approach.
You're taking an ethical intuitionist approach to this because you are recognizing that creating lives barely worth living "seems" pretty bad and modifying your ethical theory to be more in alignment with your intuitions. But from a utilitarian perspective worse or better is only defined by increased or decreased total utility. The point of utilitarianism is that the only thing that matters is suffering.
You modified utilitarian theory includes two principles: 1. maximize utility and 2. avoid RC. For utilitarians #1 > all other considerations. But for you #2 > #1 > all other considerations. But what is the justification for this other consideration #2 being more important than #1 other than it "seems" pretty bad?
I think lying seems bad. So in many instances lying > maximize utility in terms of moral significance for me. Am I wrong to do that? I don't think so. I feel it's similar to what you have done. This is why I'm an intuitionist and not a utilitarian. Maybe you could consider a lot of other intuitions as well.
I have a preliminary theory of population ethics that seems to work reasonably well: total utilitarianism, with the constraint that the addition of a new person must improve the total utility of the world by more than the utility of the additional person.
For example, suppose you have a trillion rat brains on heroin that are experiencing an extremely positive level of utility. You could create a trillion-first brain, which would experience slightly less utility and also reduce the utility of the other brains, because there’d be less heroin to go around - but the new brain’s utility would still be high enough to make up for the decrease, so total utility would be greater if you created it. But total utility would increase by less than the utility of the new brain, so by this theory, you shouldn’t create it.
So this theory avoids the Repugnant Conclusion without committing to a view with other problems, like average utilitarianism.
Why make this modification to utilitarianism rather than accepting the repugnant conclusion?
What divides those who are intelligent and intellectually uninterested from those who have an incessant craving for intellectual work? Few probably become eminent without a craving for status or desire for truth. Unfortunately, too many lack the latter but have the former.
The ability to suppress moral disgust, remain calm and consider radical ideas without being dismissive may be significantly more important than the ability to identify cognitive biases.
Debates around free speech and the right to academic freedom revolve around an idea of harm. People are worried ideas will cause harm to others. While I am skeptical that the ideas currently being suppressed like conservative political views will cause harm, can we not also have a principle of "the truth is inherently valuable?"
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The non-aggression principle is an extremely stringent ethical principle which libertarians frequently hold without sufficient justification. They oppose minimum wage, regulations, drug restrictions and the like for the fact that they violate the NAP but what justifies the NAP? The idea that "you own yourself" (self-ownership) cannot serve as justification for the moral principle that you should never be coerced under any circumstances.
Why do some consider it impermissible for a child to work for wages for reasons of their inability to consent but they do not view it as unethical to compel children to attend school when frequently the child explicitly objects?
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People seem to have the idea that the way to eminence is one of great self-denial, from which there are hourly temptations to diverge : in which a man can be kept in his boyhood, only by a schoolmaster's severity or a parent's incessant watchfulness, and in after life by the attractions of fortunate friendships and other favourable circumstances. This is true enough of the great majority of men, but it is simply not true of the generality of those who have gained great reputations. Such men, biographies show to be haunted and driven by an incessant instinctive cravingfor intellectual work. If forcibly withdrawn from the path that leads towards eminence, they will find their way back to it, as surely as a lover to his mistress.
- Francis Galton, Hereditary Genius p.40
There are only so many places and times where I could have born into where I could speak freely like I can now. There are consequences but they are not major in the grand scheme of things.
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Libertarians, Abandon the Non-Aggression Principle by Parrhesia
Why IQ Matters by Parrhesia
Many socioeconomic outcomes correlate with intelligence. To understand a social phenomena, you need to consider that intelligence could be playing an important role. Frequently, it is. This means IQ is extremely important!
