timtyler comments on Work harder on tabooing "Friendly AI" - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 12 June 2012 10:30:23AM -1 points [-]

AFAICS, I never made the corresponding claim - that the utility function was part of what made the model a model.

Comment author: RichardKennaway 12 June 2012 12:02:47PM 2 points [-]

How else can I understand your words "utility-based models"? This is no more a utility-based model than a hamburger on a car is a hamburger-based car.

Comment author: timtyler 12 June 2012 11:28:09PM *  -1 points [-]

Well, I would say "utilitarian", but that word seems to be taken. I mean that the model calculates utilities associated with its possible actions - and then picks the action with the highest utility.

Comment author: RichardKennaway 13 June 2012 08:57:21AM 2 points [-]

But that is exactly what this wrapping in a post-hoc utility function doesn't do. The model first picks an action in whatever way it does, then labels that with utility 1.