Utilitarianism

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• Utilitarian Theoryframework0.844
  The primary ethical framework under which super-beneficiaries generate dominant resource claims
• Functionalismframework0.753
  Epistemological position that what any phenomenon is is its causal/operational role; rejects hidden essence; foundational to CIMC's stance
• Physicalismconcept0.745
  The hypothesis that physics defines a causally closed mechanistic lowest level of nature, and everything observable is coarse-grained patterns in this physical reality
• 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.quote0.732
  Nozick's formulation of the utility monster problem, the foundational thought experiment for the paper
• Computationalismframework0.726
  Position that all phenomena can be fully captured as discrete and finite state transitions; grounded in mathematical constructivism
• Essentialismconcept0.726
  The view that objects can be determined by intrinsic properties bypassing observation and modeling; the position functionalism rejects
• Paternalismconcept0.725
  Interference with a person's autonomy for their own benefit.
• Taylorism (Scientific Management)framework0.724
  System for organizing work by separating conception from execution, deskilling labor, and rigidly codifying tasks to maximize efficiency.