Unknowns comments on VNM expected utility theory: uses, abuses, and interpretation - Less Wrong

21 Post author: Academian 17 April 2010 08:23PM

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Comment author: Unknowns 19 April 2010 06:22:23PM 0 points [-]

I wasn't claiming that they should be normatively outlawed, just that in practice in human beings, they lead to logical inconsistency. On the other hand, in a perfect AI, they wouldn't necessarily lead to inconsistency, but the less important goal would be completely ignored, as Liron says, and therefore effectively you would still have Archimedean values.