Sniffnoy comments on Satisficers want to become maximisers - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Sniffnoy 22 October 2011 06:33:52AM 1 point [-]

It seems to me that a satisficer that cares about expected utility rather than actual utility is not even much of a satisficer in the first place, in that it doesn't do what we expect of satisficers (mostly ignoring small probabilities of gains much greater than its cap in favor of better probabilities of ones that just meet the cap). Whereas the usual satisficer, maximizer with the bounded utility function (well, not just bounded - cut off) does.