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

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Comment author: JustinShovelain 15 January 2010 05:23:27PM 3 points [-]

What keeps the AI from immediately changing itself to only care about the people's current utility function? That's a change with very high expected utility defined in terms of their current utility function and one with little tendency to change their current utility function.

Will you believe that a simple hack will work with lower confidence next time?

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 18 January 2010 01:18:30PM 0 points [-]

Will you believe that a simple hack will work with lower confidence next time?

Slightly. I was counting on this one getting bashed into shape by the comments; it wasn't so in future, I'll try and do more of the bashing myself.