Vladimir_Nesov comments on The Urgent Meta-Ethics of Friendly Artificial Intelligence - Less Wrong
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Seeking high utility is right (and following rules of logic is right), not the other way around. "Right" is the unreachable standard by which things should be, which "utility" is merely a heuristic for representation of.
It isn't clear to me what that statement, or its negation, actually implies about the world. But I certainly don't think it's false.