endoself comments on Values vs. parameters - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: endoself 18 May 2011 12:52:42AM 0 points [-]

I was not claiming that it said that. The paper did not mention time discounting but, if you understand the paper, it is clear that discounting cannot affect the result.

Comment author: timtyler 18 May 2011 09:13:33AM 0 points [-]

This is not about "time discounting" - it is about "Utility functions do not converge". That comes across as a ridiculous over-generalisation - and has no support from the paper, which lays out some of the conditions under which convergence happens.

Comment author: endoself 18 May 2011 11:36:52PM 0 points [-]

Oh I see. I meant human utility functions, though, now that I think about it many people claim to have bounded utilities, so even that was inaccurate.