magfrump comments on Some rationality tweets - Less Wrong

43 Post author: Peter_de_Blanc 30 December 2010 07:14AM

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Comment author: magfrump 30 December 2010 06:40:37PM 15 points [-]

You have tortured this metaphor so hard that you have passed infinite negative utils and come back out on the positive infinity side.

Comment author: DSimon 31 December 2010 06:48:36PM 3 points [-]

The human brain represents utilons using a fixed-length integer field?

Comment author: magfrump 31 December 2010 07:23:52PM 6 points [-]

No, but this metaphor has utility occupying a discrete subset of the projective real line isomorphic to a cyclic group.

Comment author: DSimon 17 January 2011 02:51:26PM 1 point [-]

You win. :-)

Comment author: magfrump 17 January 2011 06:15:38PM 1 point [-]

I think the only real way to WIN is for us to torture this metaphor-utility metaphor until IT comes back out on the positive infinite side.