I would have made this into a longer post, but it works much better appended to this one:
It’s clear that you can’t just make willpower appear with a snap of your fingers, so I consider fuzzies to be utilons for many human utility functions. However, utilitarians have it even better—if they get fuzzies by giving fuzzies to someone else, they get to count all of the fuzzies generated as utilons. I urge people focused on being effective utilitarians to keep this in mind if they feel like they’re running low on fuzzies.
I would have made this into a longer post, but it works much better appended to this one:
It’s clear that you can’t just make willpower appear with a snap of your fingers, so I consider fuzzies to be utilons for many human utility functions. However, utilitarians have it even better—if they get fuzzies by giving fuzzies to someone else, they get to count all of the fuzzies generated as utilons. I urge people focused on being effective utilitarians to keep this in mind if they feel like they’re running low on fuzzies.
I think you meant they should count all the utilons generated as fuzzies?