I mean that the genie makes his decisions based on the consequences of his actions. I guess consequentialism is technically more accurate. According to Wikipedia, utilitarianism is a subset of it, but I’m not really sure what the difference is.
Ok. Yeah, “Consequentialism” or “VNM utilitarianism” is usually used for that concepts to distinguish from the moral theory that says you should make choices consistent with a utility function constructed by some linear aggregation of “welfare” or whatever across all agents.
It would be a tragedy to adopt Utilitarianism just because it is consequentialist.
Right, they are different. A creative rereading of my post could interpret it as talking about two concepts DanielLC might have meant by “utilitarianism”.
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What do you mean by utilitarianism?
I mean that the genie makes his decisions based on the consequences of his actions. I guess consequentialism is technically more accurate. According to Wikipedia, utilitarianism is a subset of it, but I’m not really sure what the difference is.
Ok. Yeah, “Consequentialism” or “VNM utilitarianism” is usually used for that concepts to distinguish from the moral theory that says you should make choices consistent with a utility function constructed by some linear aggregation of “welfare” or whatever across all agents.
It would be a tragedy to adopt Utilitarianism just because it is consequentialist.
I get consequentialism. It’s Utilitarianism that I don’t understand.
Minor nitpick: Consequentialism =/= VNM utilitarianism
Right, they are different. A creative rereading of my post could interpret it as talking about two concepts DanielLC might have meant by “utilitarianism”.