Peterdjones comments on St. Petersburg Mugging Implies You Have Bounded Utility - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Peterdjones 08 June 2011 08:21:25PM 0 points [-]

They could focus on different information. A consequentialist discards information about virtue, a virtue theorist discards consequences.

Comment author: Perplexed 08 June 2011 08:36:40PM 1 point [-]

Ok, but it seems to me that a virtue theorist must believe that information about virtue is a part of information about the state of the world. So does the consequentialist deny that all this virtue information is real information - information that can "pay rent" by generating correct anticipation of future experiences?

Odd, a few hours ago I thought I knew what a consequentialist was. But now I can't seem to understand the concept regardless of whether I accept or reject Wei_Dai's claim.