Notes on the ethic + draft the text of a theory adequate to support a system of action affordance : privately see @ ~/base.brec rework+ : see @ ._/11_will_4.brec - conceptual analysis of ‘willing’, in conjunction with supporting physical evidence, yields an objective basis for a normative ethic : see @ 11.brec - add to the ‘yield’: \ + a candidate for the popular notion of the meaning of life \\ with the other claims, this one now seems superfluous + a moral authority of God-like stature - rights, duties and [a [sense of]] purpose as close to God-given as one may get without supernatural suppositions - freedom consists in self-provision - ultimately nothing that a human (nor indeed humanity) has is self-provided - all was given by the freedom of a will that is not its own, but that of its creator - no superstition, no supernatural premise warrants this|my claim, but [rather] a|the (forthcoming) conceptual analysis of will and the physical evidence {it prompts one to recognize|whose recognition it cues} : re `physical evidence` see @ 11.notes.brec + a framework for dealing with the mounting existential crisis of the Holocene [that presently besets us] ∵ I must believe the reader’s attention is got at the outset, and held at every step ∵ on this my motivation depends order+ to avoid confusion in: • thought ← notepad / ordering thought by entering notes in the notepad • notepad ← text / ordering the notepad by translating its notes into text structure or content, or therein referring to them + sync with the present notepad and its newer archive : viz. notepad:2023-7-17a… : (or what since then is extant) thither from the present, working backwards in time + here refer also to the latest note dealt with / that subsequent notes may be distinguished and later dealt with, too deal with+ and incorporate textually if useful each active external note, deactivating any to which the texts no longer refers tear no+ inactive leaf till a) subsequent leaves are torn and b) all text searched for references to the leaf, else references (in notepad or text) may break / thus any active leaf, viz. referenced from text, stops all earlier leafs (that contain notes on the ethics) from being torn + sync with the text archive : viz. ._/ : working through it backwards in time + sync with the older notepad archive : viz. notepad:2023-6-2…2023-7-11 : these alone of the older archive need syncing, working through them backwards in time • text ← thought / ordering the texts by reflection + fortify at the riskiest points comparable projects Q. Compile please a list of philosophers who most recently have argued for an obligatory aim of extinction avoidance, complete with dated citations. Exclude from the list arguments that are based on maximizing a valued good, such as happiness or lives lived. Order the list from latest to earliest. : privately see `^^AI$`i @ ~/_/zz.brec A. Here is a list of philosophers who have recently argued for an obligatory aim of extinction avoidance, excluding arguments based on maximizing valued goods like happiness or lives lived, ordered from latest to earliest: : see https://www.perplexity.ai/ : Compile please a list of philosophers who most recently have argued for an obligatory aim of extinction avoidance. Exclude from the list arguments that are based on maximizing a valued good, such as happiness or lives lived. Order the list from latest to earliest. • Toby Ord (2024) - Argues that humanity has intrinsic value beyond just the sum of individual human lives, and that we have an obligation to preserve this. : see https://academic.oup.com/monist/article/107/2/99/7629690?login=false • Johann Frick (2017) - Contends that humanity has "final value" that should be cherished and protected, distinct from simply creating more happy people. : see https://academic.oup.com/monist/article/107/2/99/7629690?login=false • Nick Bostrom (2013) - Proposes that we have a stronger moral reason to prevent catastrophes that would kill the entire human population compared to smaller-scale disasters, based on the unique value of humanity's continued existence. : https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=12056&context=etd - This list is relatively short because many arguments for avoiding extinction are based on maximizing goods like happiness or the number of lives lived, which were excluded per the query instructions. The philosophers listed above argue for humanity's intrinsic or unique value as a reason to avoid extinction, rather than solely focusing on maximizing positive outcomes. safeguarding moral rights, pending independent publication • attribution as author of the works • integrity of the works : cf @ ._/14_default+stable_ground/notes.brec - the Wayback Machine should suffice here - though it fails to archive the Breccian images, it does archive their source files / it hides Breccian source files in its directory indeces, just as my server does, but still one can access them by manipulating the URL in the browser’s address bar / wanting to find others of a like mind, I should make *myself* findable, too \ Copyright © 2024 Michael Allan.