nazgulnarsil comments on Satisficers want to become maximisers - Less Wrong

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Comment author: nazgulnarsil 23 October 2011 09:29:59PM 0 points [-]

Satisficing seems a great way to describe the behavior of maximizers with multiple-term utility functions and an ordinal ranking of preference satisfaction i.e. humans. This sounds like it should have some fairly serious implications.