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

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Comment author: mattnewport 03 February 2010 10:29:17PM 1 point [-]

I think they are claiming that their model more closely matches observed behaviour in certain specific controlled environments. It is a big leap from there to assume that the features of the model map in any useful way to actual features of human reasoning.