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Comment author: Jack 06 July 2012 12:26:53AM 2 points [-]

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.