James_K comments on The Preference Utilitarian’s Time Inconsistency Problem - Less Wrong
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As far as I can tell, all this post says is that utilitarianism is entirely dependant on a given set of preferences, and its outcomes will only be optimal from the perspective of those preferences.
This is true, but I'm not sure its all that interesting.