Hedonic_Treader comments on Humans are utility monsters - Less Wrong

67 Post author: PhilGoetz 16 August 2013 09:05PM

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Comment author: DanArmak 17 August 2013 08:57:29PM 3 points [-]

I see. Thank you for clearing up the terminology.

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?

Comment author: blacktrance 23 August 2013 05:49:34AM 0 points [-]

To use an Objectivist term, it's a person who's acting in his "properly understood self-interest".