Tech — Work — Ramblings

by Mike Kalvas

I see you're not using JavaScript (which is awesome!) on one of my pages that uses it to provide a better experience. If you see something not working right, please let me know. My site should work exactly the same without it apart from any exceptions noted here.

I use prism.min.js to do syntax highlighting. It clocks in at 23kb total in size. Since the majority of the writing I do involves coding, I personally find this to be a worthwhile trade off. If you choose to keep this disabled, rest assured, the code examples are still there, they just may have some extra whitespace and obviously no syntax highlighting.

I do no tracking at all and am a zealot about keeping my pages as small as possible. If you're reading a page of mine that transfers more than about 250kb over the wire (including my most gratuitous indulgence — fonts) I've messed up.

So, if you'd like to have a slightly richer experience, consider enabling javascript for my site and I promise your trust won't be misplaced.

202206051524 Consequentialism

Nearly identical but more precisely a superset of 202206051526 Utilitarianism. These are often used interchangeably in lay terms. One of the three main western schools of thought in 202206051528 Moral Philosophy, consequentialism defines right action in terms of its consequences.¹ The saying "the ends justify the means" can be interpreted in a consequentialist way.

Prominent classical consequentialists (and more specifically utilitarians) are x202206111658 Jeremy Bentham and x202206111659 John Stuart Mills.

Schur, M. (2022). How to be perfect: A foolproof guide to making the correct moral decision in every situation you ever encounter anywhere on earth, forever. ↩