wnoise comments on Morality as Parfitian-filtered Decision Theory? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wnoise 31 August 2010 10:00:35PM 0 points [-]

When humans don't consciously calculate, the actions they take are much harder to fit into a utility-maximizing framework, what with inconsistencies cropping up everywhere.

Comment author: timtyler 31 August 2010 10:06:34PM *  0 points [-]

It depends on the utility-maximizing framework you are talking about - some are more general than others - and some are really very general.