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

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 04 February 2010 11:38:38PM 0 points [-]

This does not work. The trivial assignment of 1 to what happens and 0 to what does not happen is not a model of anything. A real utility model would enable you to evaluate the utility of various actions in order to predict which one will be performed. Your fake utility model requires you to know the action that was taken in order to evaluate its utility. It enables no predictions. It is not a model at all.