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No. The physical instantiation of a utility function is not an argument for moral realism. On the complete contrary, defining moral actions as "whatever an agents utility function says" is straight-forward, definitional, no-bones-about-it moral subjectivism.
Put it this way: the paperclip maximizer is not going to approve of your behavior.