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

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Comment author: timtyler 16 June 2011 09:57:34PM *  0 points [-]

Yes, our current god-shatter-derived inconsistent values can not be described by a utility function, even as an abstraction.

Actually, yes they can. Any computable agent's values can be represented by a utility function. That's one of the good things about modelling using utility functions - they can represent any agent. For details, see here:

Any agent can be expressed as an O-maximizer (as we show in Section 3.1)