Random832 comments on Delayed Gratification vs. a Time-Dependent Utility Function - Less Wrong

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Comment author: David_Gerard 11 May 2012 07:22:31AM -1 points [-]

"What's your utility function?"
"This Haskell program."

Does the use of the word "function" in "utility function" normatively include arbitrary Turing-complete things?

Comment author: Random832 14 May 2012 05:22:16PM *  0 points [-]

I don't even know any Haskell - I just have a vague idea that a monad is a function that accepts a "state" as part of its input, and returns the same kind of "state" as part of its output. But even so, the punchline was too good to resist making.