A radical reimagining of utilitarianism begins by collapsing the traditional distinctions between justice, goodness, pleasure, and karma into a single unifying metric: utility, not as a vague abstraction but as the measurable energy of value creation that circulates through human systems, with money serving as its imperfect yet revealing signal. In this framework, justice is not a separate moral category but the equitable distribution of utility across agents, goodness is the

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Entertain an outlandish notion: your brain is a quantum computer that is capable of affecting and navigating the multiverse akin to how...

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The Democratic Party is dead. Just as the business-as-usual, legacy Republican Party died when Trump was first elected, so, too, the...

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I conceived of the following thought experiment in a high school philosophy class. It seemed intuitively true that pure consciousness...

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