loqi comments on Rationality is Systematized Winning - Less Wrong

48 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 03 April 2009 02:41PM

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Comment author: loqi 05 April 2009 12:11:25AM 3 points [-]

Intelligent agents are better modelled as Expected Utility Maximisers than Utility Maximisers.

By definition, intelligent agents want to maximize total utility. In the absence of perfect knowledge, they act on expected utility calculations. Is this not a meaningful distinction?