timtyler comments on Transparency and Accountability - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Tyrrell_McAllister 22 August 2010 03:33:16AM *  3 points [-]

And my rejection of utilitarianism starts by asking how it is possible to sum up utilities for different people. It is adding apples and oranges. There is no natural exchange rate.

Utilities for different people don't come into it. The question is, how much to you now is a contemporaneous person worth, versus someone in a hundred generations? (Or did you mean utilities of different people?)

Comment author: timtyler 22 August 2010 06:53:22AM 0 points [-]

Utilities of different people, yes. He's complaining that they don't add up.