JGWeissman comments on Maximise Expected Utility, not Expected Perception of Utility - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JGWeissman 26 March 2010 06:25:03PM 3 points [-]

Drawing a line between utility and perception of utility is difficult for humans, because happiness can be seen either as utility itself or as a sometimes-fallible utility detector.

If it were easy and automatic to make this distinction, I would not have felt compelled to call attention to it.