antigonus comments on Satisficers want to become maximisers - Less Wrong

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Comment author: antigonus 21 October 2011 08:14:42PM *  1 point [-]

Right, the satisficer will not have an incentive to increase its expected utility by becoming a maximizer when its expected utility (by remaining a satisficer) is already over the threshold. But surely this condition would fail frequently.

Comment author: dlthomas 21 October 2011 09:26:40PM 0 points [-]

If it isn't over the threshold, it could just keep making the same decisions a maximizer would.