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Essays on deontological ethics

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Apr 30, 2026ACX

What Deontological Bars?

Scott explores what constitutes a deontological bar (hard moral rule) by examining when consequentialist reasoning should be constrained, using debates within AI safety about working with AI companies versus pursuing regulation as his main examples.

11 min read 1,687 words

AI policy AI safety consequentialism

Apr 16, 2011LW

Offense versus harm minimization

Scott uses a thought experiment about aliens making British people sensitive to salmon photos to argue that causing offense should be viewed through a consequentialist harm-minimization framework rather than a deontological blame-assignment framework.

17 min read 2,604 words

consequentialism deontological ethics free speech