timtyler comments on Why you must maximize expected utility - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 15 December 2012 10:44:28PM 2 points [-]

See this sequence of comments on my post arguing that saying expectation maximization is correct is equivalent to saying that average utilitarianism is correct.

That thesis seems obviously wrong: the term "utilitarianism" refers not to maximising, but to maximising something pretty specific - namely: the happiness of all people.