IlyaShpitser comments on Why you must maximize expected utility - Less Wrong

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Comment author: IlyaShpitser 13 December 2012 01:37:37PM 12 points [-]

You know, given Arrow's result, and given the observation commonly made around here that there are lots of little agents running around in our head, it is not so surprising that human beings exhibit "incoherent behavior." It's a consequence of our mind architecture.

I am not sure I am prepared to start culling my internal Congress just so I can have a coherent utility function that makes the survivors happy.