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Loosening the grip of utilitarianism - by Ajeya Cotra

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I value multiple things

Intellectually, I’m a moral anti-realist; the position that claims about right and wrong are the same type of object as claims about tables and chairs seems untenable. But in practice, my moral thinking has a realist flavor. I don’t ask myself what I care about or what matters to me, I ask myself what I “should” care about or what “actually” matters, and mostly shove aside the uncomfortable lack of grounding for what “should” or “actually” means. I’ve also long held a cynical view of my own mind, in which most of my intuitions and desires are fundamentally irrational, and obstacles to…

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