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concept:person-affecting-principlePerson-Affecting Principle
The view that morality is about making existing people happy, not making happy people, which could justify not creating super-beneficiaries
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- Jan NarvesonintroducesArticulated the person-affecting slogan: morality is about making people happy, not making happy people
Concepts (2)
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- Views allowing moral concern about creating net bad lives while denying positive duty to create good lives
- Population Axiologyassociated_withTheories about how to evaluate states of affairs differing in number and identity of persons, central to assessing digital mind creation
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- The goal of mechanistically-grounded, reliable control of neural network behavior via activation interventions
- Alexander's central concept: 'personal' is not idiosyncratic but a universal, objective quality inhering in things with deep life
- Alexander's term for the personal substrate underlying matter; living structure awakens person-stuff in matter
- The principle that every natural process is governed by a step-by-step unfolding where each step preserves the structure of the wholeness, introduced in Chapter 1 and elaborated here.
- Established baseline for OCEAN steering via personality-descriptive system prompts; compared against injection methods throughout
- Follow-up to Churchill's quote.