gjm comments on (Almost) every moral theory can be represented by a utility function - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gjm 01 May 2012 10:08:30AM -1 points [-]

What is the important difference between (1) assigning low utilities to outcomes in which the agent has just lied, and (2) attempting consequentialitically to make the world look just like it did if the agent doesn't lie? I mean, surely the way you do #2 is precisely by assigning low utilities to outcomes in which the agent lies, no?