conchis comments on Utilons vs. Hedons - Less Wrong
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Interesting, I'd assumed your definitions of utilon were subtly different, but perhaps I was reading too much into your wording.
The wiki definition focuses on preference: utilons are the output of a set of vNM-consistent preferences over gambles.
Your definition focuses on "values": utilons are a measure of the extent to which a given world history measures up according to your values.
These are not necessarily inconsistent, but I'd assumed (perhaps wrongly) that they differed in two respects.
I've started calling what-I-thought-you-meant "valutilons", to avoid confusion between that concept and the definition of utilons that seems more common here (and which is reflected in the wiki). We'll see how that goes.