Wei_Dai comments on A fungibility theorem - Less Wrong
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Do you mean "figuring out what one's weights are"? Assuming yes, I think my point was a bit stronger than that, namely there's not necessarily a reason to figure out the weights at all, if in order to figure out the weights, you actually have to first come to a decision using some other procedure.
I think there's probably local Pareto improvements that we can make to B, but that's very different from switching to A (which is what your OP was arguing for).
I agree this seems like a reasonable improvement to B, but I'm not sure what relevance your theorem has for it. You may have to write that post you mentioned in the OP to explain.
Besides that, I'm concerned about many people seemingly convinced that VNM is rationality and working hard to try to justify it, instead of working on a bunch of open problems that seem very important and interesting to me, one of which is what rationality actually is.
Yes
I think any disagreement we have here is subsumed by our discussion elsewhere in this thread.
Perhaps I will write that philanthropy post, and then we will have a concrete example to discuss.
I appreciate your point.
ETA: Wei_Dai and I determined that part of our apparent disagreement came from the fact that an agent with a policy that happens to optimize a function does not need to use a decision algorithm that computes expected values.