just as "self-regarding" and "other-regarding". which are concepts a pref utilitarian would have to flesh out
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i'm closer to a "list of good things" utilitarian than a preference utilitarian, though, anyway
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but i'm not really a utilitarian because just as value of life isn't sum of values of observer-moments,
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value of set of lives isn't the sum of values of lives. OR EVEN any function of those values at all
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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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like there isn't a function f such that intelligence of brain equals f of intelligences of neurons
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because it's about how they're arranged into a brain. but i'm probably saying obvious-to-you things now
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What about the value of lives as a function of all those lives?
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Replying to @AlleleOfGene @VesselOfSpirit and
So if you miss one life in your census, you might be able to sum that in, or might be way off.
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hm well, can a set of lives be different without any individual life being different
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