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b1shop comments on Total Utility is Illusionary - Less Wrong Discussion

0 Post author: PlatypusNinja 15 June 2014 02:43AM

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Comment author: b1shop 17 June 2014 01:14:34PM 0 points [-]

"Instead, every time you arrive at a decision point, evaluate what action to take by checking the utility of your constituents from each action. I propose that we call this "delta utilitarianism", because it isn't looking at the total or the average, just at the delta in utility from each action."

Perhaps we could call it "marginal utility."