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Comment author: nshepperd 10 April 2013 05:39:12AM 2 points [-]

I believe "VNM-utilitarianism" is problematic because it would suggest that it is a kind of utilitarianism. By the most usual definition of "utilitarianism" (a moral theory involving an 'objective' aggregative measure of value + utility-maximising decision theory) it is not.

However, I remember "VNM-rational" and "VNM-rationality" being accepted terminology.