Peterdjones comments on Morality is Awesome - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Peterdjones 10 January 2013 12:39:39PM 0 points [-]

it is plain that utility (awesomeness) is not summable-across-people... in fact in all likelihood it is not intertemporally summable for an individual (at a given point in time) since discount rates are neither time-stable or predictable.

There are a large number of things whose utitlity is very subjective (free Justin Bieber CDs anyone?) and a small number of things that are of utility to almost everyone. These include health, eductation and money, which are just the sorts of thnigs states tend to concern themselves with. It seems the problem has already been solved.