khafra comments on We Don't Have a Utility Function - Less Wrong

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Comment author: khafra 02 April 2013 07:27:44PM 1 point [-]

The term "terminal values" kinda assumes a consequentialist meta-ethical framework, I think; and that particular statement (and Scanlon in general) is more on the contractualist side; a framework opposed to consequentialism.