JulianMorrison comments on The Difficulties of Potential People and Decision Making - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JulianMorrison 05 August 2009 08:59:15AM 0 points [-]

Why are there only two types of utilitarianism mentioned? How about average-and-standard-deviation utilitarianism? Or even more mathematically sophisticated formulas (which I don't know how to make) that would classify whether people bunch or spread over the utility histogram and whether they bunch in one or multiple peaks?

Comment author: FrankAdamek 05 August 2009 11:52:16AM 0 points [-]

Just for simplicity, and those seem the two most common views.

Comment author: JulianMorrison 05 August 2009 01:17:09PM *  -2 points [-]

Given how flawed they are, being "common" isn't good enough.