asr comments on Utilitarianism and Relativity Realism - Less Wrong

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Comment author: asr 24 June 2014 12:35:08AM 3 points [-]

In other words, even if this is completely correct, it doesn't disprove relativity. Rather, it disproves either relativity or most versions of utilitarianism--pick one.

It seems like all it shows is that we ought to keep our utility functions Lorentz-invariant. Or, more generally, when we talk about consequentialist ethics, we should only consider consequences that don't depend on aspects of the observer that we consider irrelevant.