Jack comments on Humans are utility monsters - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Jack 19 August 2013 02:02:03PM 1 point [-]

Then what would the term be for a VNM-rational, moral anti-realist who explicitly considers others' welfare only because they figure in his utility function, and doesn't intrinsically care about their own utility functions?

"Utilitarian" and all the other labels in normative ethics are labels for what ought to be in an agent's utility function. So I would call this person someone who rightly stopped caring about normative philosophy.