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40 Post author: Qiaochu_Yuan 19 June 2014 05:56AM

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Comment author: TheAncientGeek 19 June 2014 10:25:57AM 6 points [-]

There's a problem with discussing ethics in terms of UFs, which is that no attempt is made to separate morally relevant preferences from others. Which is a wider issue than UFs. There may be some further issue with UFs.