Qiaochu_Yuan comments on Rationality Quotes January 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 21 January 2013 05:59:16PM 3 points [-]

After thinking about it some more, I think I have a better way to explain what I mean.

What is freedom? One (not very good but illustrative) definition is the ability to make meaningful choices. Notice that this means respecting someone else's freedom is a constraint on one's decision algorithm not just on one's outcome, thus it doesn't satisfy the VNM axioms.

Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 21 January 2013 09:24:54PM 2 points [-]

It sounds to me like you're implicitly enforcing a Cartesian separation between the physical world and the algorithms that agents in it run. Properties of the algorithms that agents in the world run are still properties of the world.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 22 January 2013 09:44:50PM 1 point [-]

I don't see why I'm relying in it anymore than than the VNM-utiliterian is.