Cyan comments on Open Thread: August 2009 - Less Wrong

5 Post author: taw 01 August 2009 03:06PM

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Comment author: Cyan 01 August 2009 08:30:58PM *  1 point [-]

He means that if utility is measured in such a way that average utility is always zero, then total utility is always zero too, average utility being total utility divided number of agents.

Comment author: orthonormal 02 August 2009 03:04:38AM 1 point [-]

Well, that's not a very good utility function then, and taw's three possibilities are nowhere near exhausting the range of possibilities.