endoself comments on St. Petersburg Mugging Implies You Have Bounded Utility - Less Wrong

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Comment author: endoself 08 June 2011 01:06:22AM 2 points [-]

By Rice's theorem, inferring utility functions is uncomputable in general, but it is probably possible to do for humans. If not, that would be quite a problem for FAI designers.