Nick_Tarleton comments on Utilons vs. Hedons - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Nanani 12 August 2009 01:26:47AM 0 points [-]

In what way are hedons anything other than a subset of utilons? Please clarify.

Increasing happiness is a part of human utility, it just isn't all of it. This post doesn't really make sense because it is arguing Superset vs Subset.

Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 12 August 2009 01:50:12AM 1 point [-]

In what way are hedons anything other than a subset of utilons?

One need not care about all hedons (or any), or care about them linearly.