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blacktrance comments on Two arguments for not thinking about ethics (too much) - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: blacktrance 31 March 2014 05:45:24PM *  0 points [-]

By "utilitarianism" I meant classical normative utilitarianism, i.e. utilitarianism is correct even if you don't like it, even if you hate following it, and regardless of what a moral agent wants or likes, they should maximize world utility. Then utilitarianism has to be an external standard. The LW usage of the term is at odds with standard usage.