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UtilonMaximizer comments on Are consequentialism and deontology not even wrong? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: UtilonMaximizer 09 July 2015 07:12:08PM *  1 point [-]

The "preferences version" of consequentialism is also what I prefer. I've never understood the (unfortunately much more common) "cosmic objective utility function" consequentialism which, among other things, doesn't account for nearly enough of the variability in preferences among different types of brains.