timtyler comments on Model Uncertainty, Pascalian Reasoning and Utilitarianism - Less Wrong

23 Post author: multifoliaterose 14 June 2011 03:19AM

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 14 June 2011 11:01:22PM 8 points [-]

Don't you think people need to go through an "ah ha, there is such a thing as rationality, and it involves Bayesian updating and expected utility maximization" phase before moving on to "whoops, actually we don't really know what rationality is and humans don't seem to have utility functions"? I don't see how you can get people to stop talking about human utility functions unless you close LW off from newcomers.