printing-spoon comments on Open thread, October 2011 - Less Wrong

5 Post author: MarkusRamikin 02 October 2011 09:05AM

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Comment author: quinsie 02 October 2011 08:26:13PM 0 points [-]

A thing has negative utility equal to the positive utility that would be gained from that thing's removal. Or, more formally, for any state X such that the utility of X is Y, the utility of the state ~X is -Y.

Comment author: printing-spoon 02 October 2011 08:35:52PM 1 point [-]

I think you need to be more precise about what states and ~ are.