PhilGoetz comments on Values vs. parameters - Less Wrong

9 Post author: PhilGoetz 17 May 2011 05:53AM

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 17 May 2011 06:26:48PM 0 points [-]

See Eliezer's post against discounting - I've been trying to address the problem that's left even after you factor out uncertainty.

Comment author: timtyler 17 May 2011 06:46:29PM 1 point [-]

Note that instrumental discounting is not just down to uncertainly - there's also mortality, future-impotence, resource limitations, the divide-and-conquer strategy - and so on. You should probably be trying to factor all of those things out.