Fwiw it doesn’t feel random to me. It feels like what I get if I think (briefly, shallowly) about, like...
What are the intuitions that seem to lead to someone advocating average utilitarianism?
Okay, and average utilitarianism as naively described clearly doesn’t match those for the reasons you describe.
This adjustment feels like maybe it gets closer to matching those intuitions?
(But also I think a formalized utility function is never going to match all our intuitions and that’s not necessarily a problem.)
Fwiw it doesn’t feel random to me. It feels like what I get if I think (briefly, shallowly) about, like...
What are the intuitions that seem to lead to someone advocating average utilitarianism?
Okay, and average utilitarianism as naively described clearly doesn’t match those for the reasons you describe.
This adjustment feels like maybe it gets closer to matching those intuitions?
(But also I think a formalized utility function is never going to match all our intuitions and that’s not necessarily a problem.)