Pfft comments on Do the people behind the veil of ignorance vote for "specks"? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Pfft 12 November 2011 12:17:09AM *  1 point [-]

See my other comment here. Note that using the word utility to mean something like IWB has a long history, e.g.

every writer [...] who maintained the theory of utility, meant by it [...] pleasure itself, together with exemption from pain

Mill, Utilitarianism