HalFinney comments on The Scales of Justice, the Notebook of Rationality - Less Wrong

41 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 13 March 2007 04:00PM

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Comment author: HalFinney 13 March 2007 05:54:51PM 1 point [-]

Keep in mind that in many situations we do in fact have to make a binary decision between two alternatives. Often it reduces to a go/no-go decision. In that case this heuristic of reducing multi-valued vectors to a single scalar weighting factor is a necessary step.