Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on The Trouble With "Good" - Less Wrong

83 Post author: Yvain 17 April 2009 02:07AM

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Comment author: Alicorn 17 April 2009 02:41:04AM *  10 points [-]

I'm taking an entire course called "Weird Forms of Consequentialism", so please clarify - when you say "utilitarianism", do you speak here of direct, actual-consequence, evaluative, hedonic, maximizing, aggregative, total, universal, equal, agent-neutral consequentialism?

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 17 April 2009 03:15:15AM 3 points [-]

This sounds like an awesome course.

Comment author: Alicorn 17 April 2009 03:53:34AM 10 points [-]

It is one. I am taking it for its awesomeness in spite of the professor being a mean person who considered it appropriate to schedule the class from seven to nine-thirty in the evening. (His scheduling decision and his meanness are separate qualities.)