timtyler comments on Values vs. parameters - Less Wrong

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

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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.