timtyler comments on Applying utility functions to humans considered harmful - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 04 February 2010 09:01:04PM *  -1 points [-]

Incidentally, I do not like writing "utility-based model" over and over again. These models should be called "utilitarian". We should hijack that term away from the ridiculous and useless definition used by the ethicists. They don't have the rights to this term.