saturn comments on If it looks like utility maximizer and quacks like utility maximizer... - Less Wrong

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Comment author: saturn 13 June 2009 11:04:51PM 1 point [-]

This is a very important point. I don't see how we can think sensibly about human utility without distinguishing these.

Another question that occurs to me, if (2) differs from (1) and (3), when do we call it akrasia and when do we call it self-deception?