blacktrance comments on Rationality Quotes February 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: blacktrance 06 February 2014 04:43:44PM 0 points [-]

Utilitarianism is an ethical theory, not a metaethical theory.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 07 February 2014 07:12:36AM -2 points [-]

Utilitarianism with a particular utility function is an ethical theory.

Comment author: blacktrance 07 February 2014 03:36:37PM -1 points [-]

I'm using "utilitarianism" in the standard philosophical sense, not in the LessWrong "uses utility functions" sense. As such, it already has a utility function - the utility functions of everyone that exists.