Lumifer comments on Making Rationality General-Interest - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 25 July 2013 12:44:53AM 2 points [-]

How do you understand 'utilitarianism'?

In the usual way: a system of normative morality which focuses on outcomes (as opposed to means) and posits that the moral outcome is the one that maximizes utility (usually understood as happiness providing positive utility and suffering/unhappiness providing negative utility).