Cyan comments on How Not to be Stupid: Know What You Want, What You Really Really Want - Less Wrong

0 Post author: Psy-Kosh 28 April 2009 01:11AM

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Comment author: Cyan 28 April 2009 03:51:49AM 0 points [-]

I was going edit-to-add the following to my rather terse comment above:

These sorts of preference orderings aren't restricted to "pure" preferences such as "ceteris paribus I prefer Italian food to Mexican" -- they apply also to preferences over multivariate states like in the example above, where the variables are {food type, company at dinner}.

But you've pre-empted it with this comment. Still, I liked it enough that I wanted an excuse to post it.

Comment author: Psy-Kosh 28 April 2009 04:16:33AM 0 points [-]

So you preferred posting it to not posting it, and you preferred having an excuse to do so to not having an excuse to do so? ;)

Comment author: Cyan 28 April 2009 04:24:22AM 0 points [-]

Exactly!