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Empiricism Utilitarianism

How To Calculate Morality Using The Utilitarian Calculator

Calculate the utilitarian ethical value of an action with the Felicific Calculus, developed by the philosopher Jeremy Bentham.

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The Hedonistic Imperative

One of the most cost effective solutions that will be evaluated by the Crowdsourcing Utopia system is David Pearce’s Hedonistic Imperative. ability to control the motivational and reward systems in the brain. The Hedonistic Imperative outlines how genetic engineering and nanotechnology will abolish suffering in all sentient life.         The abolitionist project is hugely ambitious but […]

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How to Overcome Bias in Crowdsoucing Participants

Here are some problems that Sebastian Nickel brought up with regard to using collective intelligence for decision making: A QUICK INTRO TO RATIONAL IGNORANCE AND RATIONAL IRRATIONALITY 1. This stuff pertains to public choice theory, which is defined by Wikipedia as: ” the use of modern economic tools to study problems that traditionally are in […]

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The Wisdom of Crowds

The Wisdom of Crowds is about the aggregation of information in groups, resulting in decisions that are often better than could have been made by any single member of the group. The opening anecdote relates Francis Galton‘s surprise that the crowd at a county fair accurately guessed the weight of an ox when their individual guesses were averaged (the […]

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Government Spending

From the Bankers Who Brought You President Obama Comes NEW PRESIDENT™!

Governor Romney™ has been scientifically proven to increase spending faster than the President Obama™! Obama has only increased government spending a disappointing 5.5% annually over his term.

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Freedom of Speech

World Press (and Pothi) Freedom Index

All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.” ― George Bernard Shaw I generally focus on taking the log out of my own country’s eye before […]

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Economics GDP Government Spending

Get Society Rich Quick: The Ideal Level of Government Spending

It is commonly claimed that government spending is good for the economy, but the statistics show the opposite.  Most recent studies find a negative correlation between total government size and economic growth. Why is economic growth important?  Because wealthier societies are generally happier societies. No matter how good things get for us, we always want more. Human beings want […]

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Terrorism

Foreign Military Occupation is the Primary Cause of Terrorism

95% of suicide terrorist attacks are targeted at occupying foreign militaries. 0% of suicide terrorist attacks have been directed at countries not militarily involved in geopolitical disputes.

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Government Spending

Meet the Backers: Bankers Flip-Flop to Romney

The financial sector primarily backed Romney in 2012 after having supported Obama in 2008.

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Terrorism

Are most Muslims terrorists? Are most terrorists Muslim?

FACT: Suicide terrorism is NOT primarily a product of Islamic fundamentalism. This is evidenced by the fact that 42% of suicide terrorist attacks from 1981 to 2000 were perpetrated by non-Muslims.  Before the Iraq and Afghanistan invasions, the world’s leading practitioners of suicide terrorism are the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka.  The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is a SECULAR Marxist-Leninist group primarily drawn from Hindu families.  The […]