Nisan comments on CEV: a utilitarian critique - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Nisan 26 January 2013 11:21:57PM *  7 points [-]

Humans have a thousand random shards of intuition about values that resulted from all kinds of little, arbitrary perturbations during evolution and environmental exposure. If the CEV algorithm happens to make some more salient than others, this will potentially change the outcome, perhaps drastically (butterfly effects).

There's a brief discussion of butterfly effects as a potential pitfall for CEV in this thread.