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Lukas_Gloor comments on Does utilitarianism "require" extreme self sacrifice? If not why do people commonly say it does? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: jkaufman 09 December 2014 08:47:47PM 4 points [-]

I'm not seeing where in Dagon's comment they indicate preference utilitarianism vs (ex) hedonic?

Comment author: Lukas_Gloor 10 December 2014 12:41:09PM 0 points [-]

I see what you mean. Why I thought he meant preference:

1) talks about "utility of all humans", whereas a classical utilitarian would more likely have used something like "well-being". However, you can interpret is as a general placeholder for "whatever matters".

3) is also something that you mention in economics usually, associated with preference-models. Here again, it is true that diminishing marginal utility also applies for classical utilitarianism.