Most human utility functions give their own happiness more weight than other’s. If you take into account that humans increase the happiness of others because it makes themself happy, you could even say that human utility functions only care about the happiness of their corresponding humans—but that is close to a tautology (“the utility function cares about the utility of the agent only”).
Most human utility functions give their own happiness more weight than other’s. If you take into account that humans increase the happiness of others because it makes themself happy, you could even say that human utility functions only care about the happiness of their corresponding humans—but that is close to a tautology (“the utility function cares about the utility of the agent only”).