#philosophy
#politic #social #effective-altruism
# [[Epistemic status]]
#shower-thought #to-digest #outdated
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# Utilitarianism
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>In its absolute form, the doctrine that an individual has certain inalienable rights is incompatible with **utilitarianism**, i.e. with the doctrine that right acts are those that do most to promote the general happiness ~ [[Bertrand Russell]]
In a way, **utilitarianism** is [[Epicureanism]] at scale, maximizing positive asymmetries for the whole population.
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My question is: Is it a [[Positive Sum Game]]? Can everyone achieve [[Epicureanism]]?
If Bob get event $A = P^1 + P^2$ with pleasure $P_1 = 5$ and pain $P_2 = -2$thus $A = 3$
Does John get his events impacted? i.e. lower outcomes?
#to-digest
#todo [[Bentham]] seems to have some thought on [[Calculus]] of **utilitarianism**.
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## Utilitarianism and the [[Genome]]
**Utilitarianism** goal is to maximize everyone "happiness" (positive asymmetries), the [[Genome]] wants to propagate its genes to next generations at any cost, so we tend to sacrifice at small scale for optimizing the large scale, in [[Biology/Sex]]ual behaviour, for example, we don't hesitate copulating with other mates which have potentially higher fitness.
Understanding our ancestral behaviour helps fixing our [[Monkey Brain]].