Nick_Tarleton comments on Raising the Sanity Waterline - Less Wrong

112 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 12 March 2009 04:28AM

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 13 March 2009 01:23:40AM 0 points [-]

pjeby:

Not really: there are two utility systems, not one. [...]

You are professing these unorthodox claims instead of communicating them. Why should I listen to anything you say on this issue?

Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 13 March 2009 01:35:34AM 2 points [-]

Now that the idea has been singled out in hypothesis space, you can evaluate its plausibility on your own, even without supporting argument.

I didn't realize there was an orthodoxy saying that humans have one utility system.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 13 March 2009 01:50:53AM 0 points [-]

Given how little we are given to go on, evaluating the plausibility of a vaguely suggested hypothesis is hard work. One should only do it if one sufficiently expects it to lead to fruition, otherwise you can solve the riddles posed by the Oracle of White Noise till the end of time. Maybe a proper writeup in a separate post will do the trick.