orthonormal comments on Vanilla and chocolate and preference judgements - Less Wrong

29 Post author: Swimmer963 18 April 2011 10:14PM

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Comment author: orthonormal 19 April 2011 02:09:51AM 4 points [-]

"Preference" might be better in connotation, although equivalent in denotation. People outside of Less Wrong tend to think of the utility of a clean house as more of a 'preference' and the utility of a human life as more of a 'value'.