printing-spoon comments on Open thread, October 2011 - Less Wrong
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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.
I think you need to be more precise about what states and ~ are.