conchis 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: conchis 24 June 2009 02:54:59AM *  3 points [-]

That doesn't seem a fair summary to me. I take the post to be arguing against a specific argument for the claim that the argument to a utility function must be a state of mind: viz, just because we can only evaluate things using our minds, doesn't mean that we can only care about states of our minds.

Comment author: [deleted] 24 June 2009 04:27:01PM 1 point [-]

I guess I shouldn't assume that things that seem useless to me are also useless to other people.