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

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Comment author: roystgnr 01 May 2012 08:37:43PM 1 point [-]

is there still a moral way to behave - when nothing you do will show in the material world in an hour or so?

Suppose the universe has an inescapable Big Crunch or Heat Death ahead - is there a moral way to behave, when nothing you do will show in the material world in a googolplex years or so?

Either way the answer is yes: all the materialist consequentialists need is a utility functional which has support at all times t rather than just at t_infinity.