timtyler comments on Harsanyi's Social Aggregation Theorem and what it means for CEV - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 05 January 2013 10:45:20PM *  3 points [-]

I think most of those involved realise that such projects tend to be team efforts - and therefore some compromises over values will be necessary. Anyway, I think this is the main difficulty for utilitarians: most people are not remotely like utilitarians - and so don't buy into their bizarre ideas about what the future should be like.