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Wei_Dai comments on The utility curve of the human population - Less Wrong
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A minute ago I finally understood why this site has adopted expected utility as a prescriptive theory (it's certainly not descriptive) and what real-world meaning we're supposed to assign to questions about "utility of one human life" and such. Basically, we're working out the kinks of yet another new moral code. Once you realize that, you can get with the project or leave it. Personally, I'd like to see people abandon it en masse.
Do you think you can expand on this, perhaps in a top-level post? I feel somewhat sympathetic towards what you said, but would like to understand your position better to see if I really agree with it or not.
As far as "this site has adopted expected utility as a prescriptive theory", that's hardly surprising since expected utility has been the dominant paradigm of rationality for decades. (Perhaps centuries? Wikipedia says Bernoulli invented it in 1738.) This site has actually done more than most to challenge it, I think.