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casebash comments on In favour of total utilitarianism over average - Less Wrong Discussion

0 Post author: casebash 22 December 2015 05:07AM

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Comment author: casebash 22 December 2015 11:32:44AM 1 point [-]

"The way we should aggregate utility is complicated and can't be summarized with just a sum or an average" - why? I'm not convinced that the argument by analogy is persuasive here.