Vladimir_Nesov comments on Wanting vs. Liking Revisited - Less Wrong

34 Post author: Yvain 09 July 2011 08:54PM

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 10 July 2011 01:21:40PM 0 points [-]

Perhaps Yvain is just making a descriptive, rather than normative, conclusion, i.e., that "preferences" is not a good way to model how humans actually behave.

I expect he indeed means it this way, but it sounds ambiguous, which is what I meant by "misleading".

Comment author: Wei_Dai 10 July 2011 02:53:41PM 1 point [-]

In that case, I suggest "ambiguous" or "potentially misleading", since it's not clear that anyone has actually been mislead yet. (On the other hand, your own comment is "actually misleading" since it made me think that you thought that Yvain was making a normative point and by "misleading" you were indicating disagreement. :)