RobinHanson 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: RobinHanson 15 January 2010 03:02:22PM 1 point [-]

That doesn't make it wrong, it makes it impotent. To break this "tie", you'd end up preferring to create creatures that existing creatures would prefer exist, and then preferring to satisfy their preferences. Which makes sense to me.

Comment author: RobinZ 15 January 2010 03:10:38PM 0 points [-]

I don't understand your objection to my remark - I was analyzing the system Wei_Dai described, which evidently differs from yours.