That wipes out the only good thing about any form of utilitarianism: that whatever aggregated measure of utility you have, it is objective. Anyone with complete information of the universe could in principle collect the individual utilities for all inhabitants, aggregate it according to the given rules, and get the same result.
That wipes out the only good thing about any form of utilitarianism: that whatever aggregated measure of utility you have, it is objective. Anyone with complete information of the universe could in principle collect the individual utilities for all inhabitants, aggregate it according to the given rules, and get the same result.
It doesn’t make sense to use an impossibility as part of the judging criteria for the goodness of something.
An action/utility function can only ever be a function over (at most) all information available to the agent.