UmamiSalami comments on In favour of total utilitarianism over average - Less Wrong Discussion
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No, that's highly contentious, and even if it's true, it doesn't grant a license to promote any odd utility rule as ideal. The anti-realist also may have reason to prefer a simpler version of morality.
There are much more relevant factors in building and choosing moral systems than those mathematical structures, whose relevance to moral epistemology is dubious in the first place.
It's not obvious that we would be more likely to believe anything in particular if we knew more and were more what we wished we were. CEV is a nice way of making different people's values and goals fit together, but it makes no sense to propose it as a method of actual moral epistemology.