Advising people to have values that are convenient for the purposes of creating a social utility function ought to not move them. E.g. if you already disvalue the genital mutilation of people outside your social web, it ought not weigh morally that such a value is less convenient for the arbiters of overall social utility.
The math certainly sounds interesting, though!
EDIT:
“But if we eat babies the utility function will be a perfect square! C’m on, it’ll make the math SO much easier”
Advising people to have values that are convenient for the purposes of creating a social utility function ought to not move them. E.g. if you already disvalue the genital mutilation of people outside your social web, it ought not weigh morally that such a value is less convenient for the arbiters of overall social utility.
The math certainly sounds interesting, though!
EDIT:
“But if we eat babies the utility function will be a perfect square! C’m on, it’ll make the math SO much easier”