i.e. you can want that, but it's a want on the level of "i want preference utilitarianism"
i tend to disagree w critiques of utilitarianism that take the form "no use a different function than the sum"
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like, i think the function that comes closest is probably something like the sum. but it isn't a function
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Sum isn't close, because sum is unbounded, and thus expected value can be undefined.
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measure-weighted sum then
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What? I would say use f∘sum, where f:ℝ→[0,1] is monotonic, but it doesn't sound like you're describing that.
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well how are we defining what's one thing to sum over. if one thing is "finite fraction of available measure"
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then there are finitely many things. even if in some other sense there are infinitely many
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like are me and my clone one thing or are we two things. and so on
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i don't really understand these issues but they intuitively feel orthogonal to whether sum is a good function
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