Technologos comments on Evolved Bayesians will be biased - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Technologos 21 August 2009 03:28:46AM 1 point [-]

Even more to the point, imagine D to be split into two parts, a utility function and a goal-seeking function. Then even if the utility function is never "wrong," per se, the goal-seeking function could suboptimally use A to pursue the goals. Our D-functions routinely make poor decisions of the second sort, e.g. akrasia.