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Comment author: buybuydandavis 13 January 2015 12:50:05AM *  1 point [-]

I made them up.

By time sliced utilitarianism, I mean operating as a utilitarian for some percentage of time. Well, not really, but that's close.

In discussions about utilitarianism, some people here call it utilitarianism when for a particular choice, they choose to maximize total utility. Sometimes, they're a utilitarian. Or so they say. That's what I'm referring to by "time sliced utilitarian".

If you take a chunk of your money, and say "I want to maximize total utility with this money", that could similarly be called a resource sliced (some chunk of my assets) utilitarian, but it also seems to accurately be EA.