Dagon comments on Applying utility functions to humans considered harmful - Less Wrong

26 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 03 February 2010 07:22PM

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Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 03 February 2010 07:25:27PM 1 point [-]

Question: do people think this post was too long? In the beginning, I thought that it would be a good idea to give a rough overview of DFT to give an idea of some of the ways by which pure utility functions could be made more reflective of actual human behavior. Near the end, though, I was starting to wonder if it would've been better to just sum it up in, say, three paragraphs.

Comment author: Dagon 03 February 2010 09:30:42PM 1 point [-]

I found it a bit long. I wish you'd done both: a short description followed by more detail.