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Comment author: Wei_Dai 20 August 2010 01:04:16AM *  4 points [-]

A few unrelated points:

  1. I tend to agree with you on the first section, but I think I'm less confident about it than you are. :)
  2. What is a genuinely utilitarian lifestyle? Is there someone you can cite as living such a lifestyle?
  3. I'm not sure what you're talking about in the last sentence. Prevent what from happening to Eliezer? Failing to lose hope when he should? (He wrote a post about that, BTW.)
Comment author: wedrifid 20 August 2010 01:13:55AM 1 point [-]

What is a genuinely utilitarian lifestyle? Is there someone you can cite as living such a lifestyle?

Optimising one's lifestyle for the efficient acquisition of power to enable future creation of bulk quantities of paper-clips. For example.

Comment author: timtyler 20 August 2010 08:33:36PM *  0 points [-]

It would be nice if utilitarianism signified that - but in fact it is about the greatest good for the greatest number:

"Utilitarianism (also: utilism) is the idea that the moral worth of an action is determined solely by its utility in providing happiness or pleasure as summed among all sentient beings."

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