Lots of you realize that I’ve a second weblog entitled “TheMoneyIllusion. Yesterday, I concluded that weblog and began a alternative, entitled The Pursuit of Happiness:
URL: scottsumner.substack.com/
Talking of happiness, here’s a query to contemplate:
What are the general public insurance policies that you just oppose regardless that you consider that they might make the world a happier place in the long term?
I’m not inquisitive about unrealistic hypothetical insurance policies involving fanciful creatures resembling “utility monsters”; I’m inquisitive about figuring out which precise actual world insurance policies you oppose although you consider these insurance policies would make the world a happier place.
Maybe you’ll discover an instance of an precise coverage that I must also oppose, which is able to persuade me to desert my utilitarianism.
PS. Please don’t inform me that that is the mistaken query. It’s the query that pursuits me.
PPS. A Straussian studying of this put up is that utilitarianism, correctly understood, doesn’t present clear solutions when deciding which public insurance policies are finest. We’re like ships navigating in a dense fog. (The identical may very well be mentioned for Bayesian evaluation.)
Right here’s an image of Jeremy Bentham:
