# Contested concept: effectively utilized

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- **Contestedness**: semantic
- **Diagnosis**: This masks a fundamental disagreement about the validity of 'Expected Value' logic when applied to existential risks and 'Pascal's Mugging' scenarios.
- **Canonical**: `/concept/effectively utilized` (data: `/concept/effectively utilized.json`)

## Senses in use
- **Maximizing expected utility by multiplying the magnitude of a potential outcome by its probability, regardless of how low that probability is.** — used in 4 claim(s)
- **Producing a measurable and certain reduction in harm for existing individuals using current methods.** — used in 1 claim(s)

## Claims using this term
- [Working to ensure a positive technological Singularity [AI intelligence explosion] is a valid and effective method for addressing the root …](/claim/claim_0929ebec05d5.md) _(sense: Maximizing expected utility by multiplying the magnitude of a potential outcome by its probability, regardless of how low that probability is.)_
- [The resources of an anti-abortion activist are more effectively utilized when spent on fighting global poverty rather than fighting abortio…](/claim/claim_806635cf4329.md) _(sense: Producing a measurable and certain reduction in harm for existing individuals using current methods.)_
- [To achieve success in philanthropy, donors must utilize weighted probability estimates to evaluate and choose between different charitable …](/claim/claim_b6f58b8e290f.md) _(sense: Maximizing expected utility by multiplying the magnitude of a potential outcome by its probability, regardless of how low that probability is.)_
- [The strategy of pursuing a positive Singularity has enormous expected value because the extremely high utility of the outcome compensates f…](/claim/claim_c306198184a3.md) _(sense: Maximizing expected utility by multiplying the magnitude of a potential outcome by its probability, regardless of how low that probability is.)_
- [From a broad variety of moral and economic perspectives, working to ensure a positive Singularity [an intelligence explosion] is a strictly…](/claim/claim_d761fbde4943.md) _(sense: Maximizing expected utility by multiplying the magnitude of a potential outcome by its probability, regardless of how low that probability is.)_