I suppose people use the term "LW ethics" to refer to Eliezer's moral indexicalism (Is there a name for the position that has actually been adopted into more wide-spread use here?)
Subjectivism.
plus consequentialism,
The consequentialism is of the utilitarian variety , which isn't particularly compatible with subjectivism/indexicality. So there's two theories. There's also the objective-sounding CEV thing, and the deflationary-sounding tendency to talk about "morality" and "preferences" interchangeably.
Subjectivism.
Really? In that case, I'm strongly against using that, because the term "subjectivism" seems ill-defined, not very illuminating, and has a bunch of wrong connotations. In particular, as I read him, Eliezer does think that we are all talking about the same thing, that we have a shared referential intention, and that disagreement is therefor substantial and about the truth-value of a definite proposition that has a truth-value. (Which is precisely the reason why I think his theory is wrong.)
...The consequentialism is of the utilitari
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