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33 Post author: lukeprog 29 January 2011 07:58PM

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Comment author: ata 30 January 2011 12:25:53AM *  2 points [-]

(Note that I said preferences and not utility function. There is no assumption that your preferences HAVE to be a utility function, or at least I don't think so. Eliezer might have a different view).

Your preferences are a utility function if they're consistent, but if you're a human, they aren't.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 30 January 2011 04:06:55AM *  -1 points [-]

Consistent in what sense? Utility function over what domain? Under what prior? In this context, some unjustified assumptions, although understandably traditional to a point where objecting is weird.