conchis comments on Utilons vs. Hedons - Less Wrong

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Comment author: conchis 10 August 2009 10:11:36PM 1 point [-]

Depending on your purpose, I think it's probably useful to distinguish between self-regarding and other-regarding utilons as well. A consequentialist moral theory may want to maximise the (weighted) sum of (some transform of) self-regarding utilons, but to exclude other-regarding utilons from the maximand (to avoid "double-counting").

The other interesting question is: what does it actually mean to "value" something?