Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Real-Life Anthropic Weirdness - Less Wrong

24 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 05 April 2009 10:26PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 06 April 2009 05:55:26PM 4 points [-]

Ambiguities can simply be asked. I might or might not answer depending on whether I had time. Speaking for a person is a different matter.

Comment author: PhilGoetz 06 April 2009 08:46:24PM *  5 points [-]

The comment that started this now-tedious thread said:

When you said that, it seemed to me that you were saying that you shouldn't play the lottery even if the expected payoff - or even the expected utility - were positive, because the payoff would happen so rarely.

Does that mean you have a formulation for rational behavior that maximizes something other than expected utility? Some nonlinear way of summing the utility from all possible worlds?

Sounds like asking to me. I clearly was not claiming to know what you were thinking.