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Comment author: buybuydandavis 28 April 2016 04:51:14AM 0 points [-]

Ethics boards tend not to be utilitarian (or on many cases, even consequentialist) in their judgements.

Likely, but having a review board may still yield a net utilitarian outcome compared to not having one.

Comment author: Dagon 28 April 2016 10:30:57PM 0 points [-]

having a review board may still yield a net utilitarian outcome compared to not having one

By "net utilitarian outcome" I'm guessing you mean "overall higher utility in the universe". And I agree, it's higher than some alternate universes that don't contain ethics boards. However, it's probably lower than universes with (competent) utilitarian ethics boards. And the last is probably worse than universes with (competent) utilitarian researchers and no need for ethics boards.

It always depends on what you compare it against.

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