MichaelBishop comments on Utilons vs. Hedons - Less Wrong

28 Post author: Psychohistorian 10 August 2009 07:20PM

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Comment author: MichaelBishop 15 August 2009 10:49:42PM *  0 points [-]

The example may not prove anything useful, but it did something useful for me. It reminded me that 1) we don't have a single perfect-for-all-situations definition of utility. and 2) our intuition often leads us astray.