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CarlShulman comments on r/HPMOR on heroic responsibility - Less Wrong Discussion

9 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 21 August 2012 11:08AM

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Comment author: CarlShulman 22 August 2012 05:02:58AM 3 points [-]

CEV is one of the many flavors of total act utilitarianism (or average?

This is not just false, but something of a category error. Here is the CEV working paper if you want to read it. It's talking about a very loose class of procedures to select actions using the device of what an idealized version of some specified population would decide on under some idealized circumstances. The upshot of that for object-level normative questions depends on how the idealized process of moral deliberation would go. There's no necessary connection to any form of utilitarianism, or any other first-order normative account.

Comment author: V_V 22 August 2012 09:30:43AM 3 points [-]

How does it aggregate preferences?

Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 26 August 2012 11:14:42AM 0 points [-]

That's an open question.