Lukas_Gloor comments on A (small) critique of total utilitarianism - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lukas_Gloor 25 June 2012 10:35:44PM 0 points [-]

I see, interesting. That means you bring in a notion independent of both the person's experiences and preferences. You bring in a particular view on value (e.g. that life shouldn't be repetitious). I'd just call this a consequentialist theory where the exact values would have to be specified in the description, instead of utilitarianism. But that's just semantics, as you said initially, it's important that we specify what exactly we're talking about.