Mere Goodness
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Mere Goodness is the fifth book contained in the ebook Rationality: From AI to Zombies, by Eliezer Yudkowsky. It focuses on the relationship between moral theory and moral practice.
Mere Goodness contains three sequences of essays, along with the stand-alone essay Twelve Virtues of Rationality. These are all collected in the Rationality: From AI to Zombies ebook, but the essay names below are also linked to the original blog posts.
The previous book in the series is Mere Reality, and the next (and final) is Becoming Stronger.
U. Fake Preferences
- 257. Not for the Sake of Happiness (Alone)
- 258. Fake Selfishness
- 259. Fake Morality
- 260. Fake Utility Functions
- 261. Detached Lever Fallacy
- 262. Dreams of AI Design
- 263. The Design Space of Minds-in-General
V. Value Theory
- 264 Where Recursive Justification Hits Bottom
- 265. My Kind of Reflection
- 266. No Universally Compelling Arguments
- 267. Created Already In Motion
- 268. Sorting Pebbles Into Correct Heaps
- 269. 2-Place and 1-Place Words
- 270. What Would You Do Without Morality?
- 271. Changing Your Metaethics
- 272. Could Anything Be Right?
- 273. Morality as Fixed Computation
- 274. Magical Categories
- 275. The True Prisoner’s Dilemma
- 276. Sympathetic Minds
- 277. High Challenge
- 278. Serious Stories
- 279. Value is Fragile
- 280. The Gift We Give To Tomorrow
W. Quantified Humanism
- 281. Scope Insensitivity
- 282. One Life Against the World
- 283. The Allais Paradox
- 284. Zut Allais!
- 285. Feeling Moral
- 286. The “Intuitions” Behind “Utilitarianism”
- 287. Ends Don’t Justify Means (Among Humans)
- 288. Ethical Injunctions
- 289. Something to Protect
- 290. When (Not) To Use Probabilities
- 291. Newcomb’s Problem and Regret of Rationality