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This being said, utilitarianism is an ethical theory that specifies our sole moral obligation as being to maximise the total amount of ‘intrinsic value’ in the world, as tallied up from a disembodied, impartial, cosmic vantage point called ‘the point of view of the Universe’. From this view, it doesn’t matter how value – which utilitarian hedonists equate with pleasure – is distributed among people across space and time. All that matters is the total net sum.
It started as a fringe philosophical theory about humanity’s future. It’s now richly funded and increasingly dangerous
Émile P Torres
The other kids have stopped looking. One by one, they’ve drifted out of the neighborhood of green things into the louder, flashier party of other people.
The Overstory
Richard Powers
They produce material that only superficially accomplishes a communicative goal, creating a kind of opacity around any given situation, a fog of bafflegab, making them anti-productivity. And they produce simulations of meaning that mock the education process, inviting people to dissipate their curiosity in efficient acts of prompting that return expedient blocks of text behind which no one stands and for which no one claims responsibility. No one cares if it’s right or even arguable; it’s anti-learning.
Fog of Bafflegab
Rob Horning
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