«‘Meta used BitTorrent because it was a MORE EFFICIENT and reliable means of obtaining the datasets …’ Meta’s attorney writes.»

Seriously ‽ They’re arguing that expediency justifies systematic and widespread copyright infringement for the sake of MAXIMIZING WEALTH‽

#utilitarianism runs completely #amok #buckvbell revisited https://m.einverne.info/@HackerNewsBot/116188132461060163

Prerequisites for #mercy: #utilitarianism in #solidarity spaces

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUrryzYE1xo/?igsh=MTl4bWVqdGthenZ3Mg==

The fallacy at the heart of welfare economics

https://davidellerman.substack.com/p/the-petitio-principii-fallacy-in

@economics_that_works

#Economics #EconTwitter #Econ #PoliticalEconomy #WelfareEconomics #Philosophy #Ethics #Utilitarianism #Utilitarian #Consequentialism #Consequentialist #capitalism #Egalitarianism #Egalitarian #Inequality

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jlou/115970177564955152

@ArthurI what do you think of this resolution I came up with to the consequentialist judgement paradox you came up with?

#philosophy #ethics #Consequentialism #utilitarian #utilitarianism #consequentialist #deontology #deontological

#RenéeGood is dead. An #ICE agent shot her three times through her car window in #Minneapolis. Video shows the agent had time to step away—instead he drew his weapon and fired. This wasn’t self-defense. It was execution.

Philosopher Harry Binswanger traces the philosophical chain: https://hbletter.com/trumps-gestapo-is-now-murdering-protestors/

ICE exists because we philosophically and politically destroyed the concept of #IndividualRights.#Bentham called #rights “nonsense upon stilts” 20 years after #Kant. That became settled doctrine. Without a defensible theory of rights grounded in reality, we got the #Progressive movement’s #collectivism, then the xenophobia that built ICE, and now we have federal agents executing protesters in the street.

ICE has no legitimate function—it exists to grab and deport people, operating with arbitrary force. "The nature of an action follows from the nature of the entity that acts.” ICE's nature is thuggery wrapped in the language of #LawEnforcement.

But there’s also a commercial-political chain that made this possible: government agencies contract with private #surveillance companies to bypass #FourthAmendment protections. What the government can’t collect directly, it purchases from #DataBrokers and information services.

The technical infrastructure—databases, APIs, real-time intelligence platforms—gets built by engineers who think they're just solving technical problems. That infrastructure feeds into operations that put agents on Minneapolis streets with intelligence they couldn’t legally gather themselves.

This didn't have to happen.

Rights theory didn't have to lose to #utilitarianism and Kantian duty. We didn’t have to allow commercial surveillance to become a Fourth Amendment bypass. But we did, and now 37-year-old Renée Good is dead because an agent felt empowered to approach her car, try her door handle, and shoot when she tried to leave.

The horror isn’t just that Renée Good died. It’s that her death was philosophically, politically, and technically inevitable once we abandoned individual rights and built the infrastructure to enforce #collectivist #immigration policy at scale.

#ReneeGood #philosophy #politics #USpol #USpolitics #SurveillanceState #SurveillanceCapitalism

“Utilitarianism asks: greatest happiness for the greatest number. Does the majority always know what’s best?”

#Utilitarianism #Ethics #Consequentialism

"The focus on mathematical formalism and consequent abstraction from important issues in the real world do not only have consequences for understanding the economy — it also has consequences with respect to the questions asked within the discipline. Far too many economists are concerned with how a change in measured variable X affects measured variable Y rather than asking normative, important questions such as: Is capitalism preferable to socialism? What are the global consequences of China’s rise in the world economy? What are the limits of looking at climate change purely through the lens of market failures? In fact, I’ve met many economists who say that they think economics is a ‘hard science’ that should be unconcerned with these types of questions. Both Adam Smith and Karl Marx, two of the most important figures in classical economics, would turn in their graves if they heard this. Despite their political differences, these two scholars approached economics in a similar way. They both understood that economics is shaped by human values, social norms, and ideologies. According to Smith and Marx, to be an economist is also to be a philosopher.

The crisis in economics education isn't just an academic problem — it's a societal one. When policymakers, business leaders, and analysts graduate with a mathematically sophisticated but contextually impoverished understanding of economic systems, it has serious consequences."

https://www.theglobalcurrents.com/p/how-economics-lost-its-soul

#Economics #PoliticalEconomy #Philosophy #Utilitarianism