ciphergoth comments on The Absent-Minded Driver - Less Wrong

27 Post author: Wei_Dai 16 September 2009 12:51AM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 16 September 2009 08:12:13AM *  7 points [-]

Mod parents WAY up! I should've tried to solve this problem on my own, but I wasn't expecting it to be solved in the comments like that!

Awesome. I'm steadily upgrading my expected utilities of handing decision-theory problems to Less Wrong.

EDIT 2016: Wei Dai below is correct, this was my first time encountering this problem and I misunderstood the point Wei Dai was trying to make.

Comment author: ciphergoth 19 September 2009 03:18:18PM 22 points [-]

You make it sound as if you expect to expect a higher utility in the future than you currently expect...