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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 15 April 2012 03:42:17AM 10 points [-]

Well, for starters determining whether something is a preference or a bias is rather arbitrary in practice.

Comment author: nyan_sandwich 15 April 2012 04:06:27AM 2 points [-]

I struggled with that myself, but then figured out a rather nice quantitative solution.

Eliezer's stuff doesn't say much about that topic, but that doesn't mean it fails at it.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 15 April 2012 05:04:03AM 2 points [-]

I don't think your solution actually resolves things since you still need to figure out what weights to assign to each of your biases/values.

Comment author: nyan_sandwich 15 April 2012 06:18:03AM 1 point [-]

You mean that it's not something that I could use to write an explicit utility function? Of course.

Beyond that, whatever weight all my various concerns have is handled by built-in algorithms. I just have to do the right thing.