Cyan comments on The Domain of Your Utility Function - Less Wrong

24 Post author: Peter_de_Blanc 23 June 2009 04:58AM

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Comment author: Cyan 23 June 2009 10:17:22PM *  0 points [-]

Oh, indeed. I just want to distinguish between things that humans really experience and the technical meaning of the term "utility". In particular, I wanted to avoid a conversation in which disutility, which sounds like a euphemism for discomfort, is juxtaposed with decision theoretic utility.