timtyler comments on Issues with the Litany of Gendlin - Less Wrong

16 Post author: Raemon 10 December 2011 05:25AM

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Comment author: timtyler 14 December 2011 06:18:43PM 0 points [-]

I probably blatantly reveal my ignorance by asking this, but do only agents who know what they want have a utility-function?

Nope - in theory, all agents have a utility-function - though it might not necessarily be the neatest way of expressing what they value.