private_messaging comments on A (small) critique of total utilitarianism - Less Wrong

36 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 26 June 2012 12:36PM

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Comment author: private_messaging 26 June 2012 08:49:41PM *  0 points [-]

Well and then you can have model where the model of individual is sad when the real individual is happy and vice versa, and there would be no problem with that.

You got to ground the symbols somewhere. The model has to be defined to approximate reality for it to make sense, and for the model to approximate reality it has to somehow process individual's internal state.