Wei_Dai comments on The Preference Utilitarian’s Time Inconsistency Problem - Less Wrong

25 Post author: Wei_Dai 15 January 2010 12:26AM

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Comment author: RobinZ 15 January 2010 01:26:44AM 5 points [-]

Obviously, weighing equally over every logically possible utility function will produce a null result - for every utility function, a corresponding utility function with the opposite preferences will exist.

Comment author: Wei_Dai 15 January 2010 01:35:48AM *  2 points [-]

I agree, of course. The question was a rhetorical one to point out the incomplete nature of Robin's solution.

Comment author: RobinZ 15 January 2010 01:37:41AM 2 points [-]

Curse the lack of verbal cues on the Interwebs!