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

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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 18 January 2010 01:17:30PM 0 points [-]

It's simple, it's well defined - it just doesn't work. Or at least, work naively the way I was hoping.

The original version of the hack - on one-shot oracle machines - worked reasonably well. This version needs more work. And I shouldn't have mentioned deaths here; that whole subject requires its own seperate treatment.