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David Friedman | Gaming the Future, Chapter 4: SKIM THE MANUAL | Intelligent Voluntary Cooperation.

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Utilitarianism and the Parato Box

Each value system has its own score for each of those points in the picture. And I think right now, utilitarianism is a plausible enough value theory for many people to adopt because all people are similar enough to each other that we can have intuitions about interpersonal comparison. These were coexisting with cognitions that are incomprehensibly different from us. The notion of having inter agent comparable metrics of utility just becomes incoherent.

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