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

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Comment author: Cyan 05 February 2010 12:17:53AM *  2 points [-]

The agent can only control its actions.

Agents control their perceptions, not their actions.

"Control" is being used in two different senses in the above two quotes. In control theory parlance, timtyler is saying that actions are the manipulated variable, and you're saying that perceptions are the process variable.