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Technologos comments on Friedman on Utility - Less Wrong
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According to who? Are we just redefining terms now?
As far as I can tell your definition is the same as Benthams only implying rules bound more weakly for the practitioner.
I think someone started (incorrectly) using the term and it has taken hold. Now a bunch of cognitive dissonance is fancied up to make it seem unique because people don't know where the term originated.
See my reply and the following comments for the distinction. The economist's utility function is ordinal; the ethicist's is cardinal.