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RomeoStevens comments on Open thread, 30 June 2014- 6 July 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: RomeoStevens 01 July 2014 06:03:10PM 2 points [-]

Those people can be compensated in other ways. If there is some aspect of your utility that your conception of utilitarianism isn't capturing then you have to figure out how to capture it. Utilitarianism based on simple utility models will always fail.

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 01 July 2014 09:14:24PM 0 points [-]

Fair point.