Comment on Open Thread, November 1 - 7, 2013

Sun, 10 Nov 2013 14:04:59 GMT

Is this a serious question? Everything in our society, from laws to social conventions, is based on unified agency.

The consequentialist view of rationality as expressed here seems to be based on the notion of unified agency of people (the notion of a single utility function is only coherent for unified agents).

It's fine if you don't want to maintain unified agency, but it's obviously an important concept for a lot of people. I have not met a single person who truly has abandoned this concept in their life, interactions with others, etc. The conventional view is someone without unified agency has demons to be cast out ("my name is Legion, for we are many.")

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