timtyler comments on Hedging our Bets: The Case for Pursuing Whole Brain Emulation to Safeguard Humanity's Future - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 03 March 2010 01:04:13PM *  0 points [-]

In comparison with what?

The main virtues of utility-based models are that they are general - and so allow comparisons across agents - and that they abstract goal-seeking behaviour away from the implementation details of finite memories, processing speed, etc - which helps if you are interested in focusing on either of those areas.