mattnewport comments on My main problem with utilitarianism - Less Wrong

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Comment author: conchis 18 April 2009 08:06:24PM *  0 points [-]

the preferences could be any agent's preferences

Preference-satisfaction in this context is usually considered as an aggregate (usually a sum or an average) of the degree to which all individuals' preferences are satisfied (for some defined metric of satisfaction).