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tailcalled comments on Unbounded linear utility functions? - Less Wrong Discussion

-1 Post author: snarles 11 October 2015 11:30PM

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Comment author: tailcalled 13 October 2015 04:49:31PM 0 points [-]

I hold the hard-nosed position that moral philosophies (including utiliarianism) are human inventions which serve the purpose of facilitating large-scale coordination.

This is one part of morality, but there also seems to be the question of what to (coordinate to) do/build.