thomblake comments on You cannot be mistaken about (not) wanting to wirehead - Less Wrong

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Comment author: thomblake 28 January 2010 03:42:11PM 0 points [-]

Good point. I was effectively entirely leaving out the "mathematical" in "mathematical representation of preference ordering". As I stated it, you couldn't expect to aggregate utiles.

Comment author: ciphergoth 29 January 2010 05:53:16PM 0 points [-]

You can't aggregate utils; you can only take their weighted sums. You can aggregate changes in utils though.