wedrifid comments on Rationality Quotes September 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 03 September 2012 07:53:58AM 0 points [-]

How about doing unto others what maximizes total happiness, regardless of what they'd do unto you?

You may do that if you must, I recommend against it.

Comment author: DanielLC 03 September 2012 05:38:39PM 0 points [-]

Why do you recommend against it? Do you have a more complicated utility function?

Comment author: mfb 04 September 2012 02:15:56PM 2 points [-]

Most human utility functions give their own happiness more weight than other's. If you take into account that humans increase the happiness of others because it makes themself happy, you could even say that human utility functions only care about the happiness of their corresponding humans - but that is close to a tautology ("the utility function cares about the utility of the agent only").