Tom_Breton comments on Fake Utility Functions - Less Wrong

22 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 06 December 2007 04:55PM

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Comment author: Tom_Breton 17 December 2007 03:56:42AM 0 points [-]

...there really is some good stuff in there.

My advice would be to read Reasons and Persons (by Derek Parfit) and The Methods of Ethics (by Henry Sidgwick).

Looked up both. Two bum steers. Sidgwick is mostly interested is naming and taxonomizing ethical positions, and Parfit is just wrong.