Yvain comments on Cognitive Neuroscience, Arrow's Impossibility Theorem, and Coherent Extrapolated Volition - Less Wrong

10 Post author: lukeprog 25 September 2011 11:15AM

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Comment author: Yvain 25 September 2011 08:10:14PM 8 points [-]

Can you point out the particular paragraph in your neuroscience post you're referring to? I looked and couldn't find anything that obviously fit the bill.

I would be very worried that you're describing something closer to "wanting", but that CEV should take as input something closer to "approving"

Comment author: [deleted] 18 November 2012 02:50:31AM -1 points [-]

I couldn't find the precise paragraph, either. Searching the literature lead me to pp.136-7 of Glimcher's Foundations of Neuroeconomic Analysis. See his definitions for "subjective value" and "utility." I imagine this is the source Luke drew the fact from.