Academian comments on Preference utilitarian measure of historical welfare - Less Wrong

7 Post author: taw 14 April 2010 01:32PM

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Comment author: Academian 18 April 2010 10:32:38PM 1 point [-]

Hey taw, did you write a code to present yourself with lotteries, log your choices, and compute your utilities?

Comment author: taw 19 April 2010 11:00:26AM 0 points [-]

I ordered the choices until I was happy about them (that part wasn't too difficult as they're mostly chronological). Then I did "if I was about to live in nth, and there was a time machine that with p% moved me to n+1th, and otherwise to n-1th era, what would p need to be for me to take it" kind of lottery thinking.

Conversion of these to utilities was done by Ruby code in the post.