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What is a deontological concept and what is a non-deontological concept?
After thinking about it some more, I think I have a better way to explain what I mean.
What is freedom? One (not very good but illustrative) definition is the ability to make meaningful choices. Notice that this means respecting someone else's freedom is a constraint on one's decision algorithm not just on one's outcome, thus it doesn't satisfy the VNM axioms.
It sounds to me like you're implicitly enforcing a Cartesian separation between the physical world and the algorithms that agents in it run. Properties of the algorithms that agents in the world run are still properties of the world.
I don't see why I'm relying in it anymore than than the VNM-utiliterian is.
I thought I had made that clear in my second sentence:
Um, no. I can't respond to a challenge to give a non-X definition of Y if I don't know what X means.