Utilitarian Theory

The primary ethical framework under which super-beneficiaries generate dominant resource claims

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Super-Beneficiary
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A being that is superhumanly efficient at deriving well-being from resources; the paper's central analytical category

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Utilitarianismframework0.844
Ethical theory emphasizing beneficence for sentient beings; contrasted with Kantianism.
Utilitarian theory is embarrassed by the possibility of utility monsters who get enormously greater sums of utility from any sacrifice of others than these others lose.quote0.783
Nozick's formulation of the utility monster problem, the foundational thought experiment for the paper
Information Theoryconcept0.754
Framework treating phenomena as information flows and exchanges; adopted by Friedman and others to model design as informational process.
Complexity Theoryframework0.751
The class of explanations from the Santa Fe Institute tradition, including attractor dynamics and emergent order, evaluated as insufficient to fully explain the appearance of living structure
Optimal Control Theoryframework0.749
Design of controllers to minimize a cost function.
Darwinian Theory of Evolutionframework0.746
The standard evolutionary framework based on selective advantage of step-wise mutations, which Alexander argues is insufficient alone to explain global geometric order in organisms
Category Theoryconcept0.745
Fundamental mathematical tool; poset-as-category provides simple instances of categorical notions like products and adjunctions.
Expected Utility Theoryframework0.744
Economic framework for decision-making under risk.