timtyler comments on The Irrationality Game - Less Wrong

38 Post author: Will_Newsome 03 October 2010 02:43AM

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Comment author: timtyler 03 October 2010 02:37:09PM *  1 point [-]

I was trying to get you to clarify what you meant.

As far as I can tell, your reply makes no attempt to clarify :-(

"Utility function" does not normally mean:

"a function which an optimizing agent will behave risk-neutrally towards".

It means the function which, when maximised, explains an agent's goal-directed actions.

Apart from the issue of "why-redefine", the proposed redefinition appears incomprehensible - at least to me.

Comment author: Alicorn 03 October 2010 02:52:25PM 1 point [-]

I have concluded to my satisfaction that it would not be an efficient expenditure of our time to continue attempting to understand each other in this matter.