PhilGoetz comments on Morality is not about willpower - Less Wrong

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 08 October 2011 03:07:21PM -1 points [-]

You could equally well analyze the utils and the fuzzies, and find subcategories of those, and say they are not exchangable.

The task of modeling a utility function is the task of finding how these different things are exchangeable. We know they are exchangable, because people have preferences between situations. They eventually do one thing or the other.