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11 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 22 September 2009 05:25PM

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Comment author: gaffa 23 September 2009 04:33:01PM *  0 points [-]

My reading of that sentence was that Kaj_Sotala focused not on the happiness part of utilitarianism, but on the expected utility calculation part. That is, that everyone needs to make an expected utility calculation to make moral decisions. I don't think any particular type of utility was meant to be implied as necessary.