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Thanks! I've made some edits.
I think the concept of utility functions is widespread enough that I can get away with it (and I can't find an aesthetically pleasing way to reorder that section and fix it).
Nowhere in this post am I talking about Benthamist altruistic utilitarianism. I realize the ambiguity of the terms, but again I don't see a good way to fix it.
Oops, good catch.
Ah sorry - it was the link "but that's a different topic" that I was talking about, I realize I didn't make that clear. I was expecting the justification for assigning outcomes a utility would link to something about the Von Neumann-Morgenstern axioms, which I think are less controversial than altruistic utilitarianism. But it's only a minor point.
Ah. It may be a matter of interpretation, but I view that post and this one as more enlightening on the need for expected-utility calculation, even for non-altruists, than the von Neumann-Morgenstern axioms.