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this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2026
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Economist John Quiggin posts a critique of William MacAskill's type of utilitarianism with confusing logic, has to retract it when a quote with chapter and verse in his main text does not exist:
(quote is from the comments I have not corrected or added
sic)He says he is writing a book against pro-natalism.
The pro-natalism book Quiggin is responding to is After the Spike; I got a free copy at work and read it on the plane over break. Mostly longtermism / utilitarianism, but left-pro-natalism is a little different. One of them came to campus to do a book talk last week, most of the audience remained pretty skeptical. Word on the street is that Musk gave them a pretty hefty grant, enough that I got a dead tree apparently...