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15 Post author: jkaufman 22 October 2013 12:13PM

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Comment author: jkaufman 22 October 2013 11:35:35PM 1 point [-]

Both Rachels and I are considering consequentialist moral theories that involve valuing the well-being of others. Utilitarianism is one of these, but many lesswrongers value others and are consequentialist without being confident in what would count as utility or believing it scales linearly with people.