Nick_Tarleton comments on Utilons vs. Hedons - Less Wrong

28 Post author: Psychohistorian 10 August 2009 07:20PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Tags: morality

Comments (112)

Sort By: Best

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 13 August 2009 01:33:06AM 4 points [-]

Reading hedons as a subset of utilons, phrases like "maximize our hedons at the expense of our utilons" didn't make sense to me.

The x that maximizes f(x) might not maximize f(x)+g(x).