Utilons

For this reason, it might be useful to consider pushing forward the idea of a moral currency, like Utilons. From the perspective of an outsider it doesn’t feel attractive to so formally declare a moral value calculation, but one could Soften the concept. Perhaps it could be softened by making it a noun phrase instead a kind of stupid sounding single noun (another benefit of Quality Adjusted Life Years).

“If you discount all harm done by the Catholic Church, and look only at the good . . . then does the average Catholic do more gross good than the average atheist, just by virtue of being more active? Perhaps if you are wiser but less motivated, you can search out interventions of high efficiency and purchase utilons on the cheap . . . But there are few of us who really do that, as opposed to planning to do it someday.” (Eliezer Yudkowsky, Rationality)

This is mostly interesting because of the idea of a “Utilitarian currency”, a Utilons

“If you discount all harm done by the Catholic Church, and look only at the good . . . then does the average Catholic do more gross good than the average atheist, just by virtue of being more active? Perhaps if you are wiser but less motivated, you can search out interventions of high efficiency and purchase utilons on the cheap . . . But there are few of us who really do that, as opposed to planning to do it someday.” (Eliezer Yudkowsky, Rationality)

This is mostly interesting because of the idea of a “Utilitarian currency”, a Utilons