Bibliographic record
Abstract
Questions regarding the foundations and substantive content of our obligations to future generations are amongst the most practically important and theoretically challenging in moral theory. Tim Mulgan's new book‐length study of the subject (the first of its kind), Future People, is a contribution of the first importance to philosophical debate on the key issues in this area. Sophisticated, ambitious in scope and engagingly written, it offers a concise introduction to many of the central philosophical questions concerning both the morality of reproductive decisions and intergenerational justice, as well as advancing a powerful and original approach to answering them. A plausible account of our obligations to future generations should aspire, according to Mulgan, to make sense of two crucial intuitions. First, it is certainly wrong for one generation knowingly and unnecessarily to deplete resources which future generations will need if they are to maintain the same quality of life as was enjoyed by previous generations. Secondly, individuals ought to be free to make their own lifestyle decisions, and in particular, their own reproductive decisions, providing their decisions do not unreasonably burden others in the society, or those who will live in the future.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".