I think using expected values is just one possible decision procedure, one that doesn’t actually follow from utilitarianism and isn’t the same thing as using utilitarianism as a decision procedure. To use utilitarianism as a decision procedure, you’d need to know the actual consequences of your actions, not just a distribution or the expected consequences.
I think using expected values is just one possible decision procedure, one that doesn’t actually follow from utilitarianism and isn’t the same thing as using utilitarianism as a decision procedure. To use utilitarianism as a decision procedure, you’d need to know the actual consequences of your actions, not just a distribution or the expected consequences.