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SilentCal comments on High energy ethics and general moral relativity - Less Wrong Discussion

8 Post author: maxikov 21 June 2015 08:34PM

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Comment author: SilentCal 22 June 2015 10:36:30PM 0 points [-]

I like this post, with the possibly-heterodox interpretation that by 'utilitarianism' you mean 'utilitarianism as we currently conceive it'--in particular, I think we're mostly working with a Newtonian utility function that probably gives the wrong answer regarding things like wireheading (unlike the Newtonian physicists we know this isn't right, but the successor isn't quite ready)