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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 27 March 2013 01:33:11AM 4 points [-]

Suppose everyone had a utility function and we just added the utility functions, ignoring scaling. What allegedly goes wrong with this? And why do I care about it?

Comment author: wedrifid 27 March 2013 06:04:48AM 3 points [-]

Suppose everyone had a utility function and we just added the utility functions, ignoring scaling. What allegedly goes wrong with this? And why do I care about it?

I am perplexed. Why are you asking this question? Isn't this stuff you learned about then theorized about while you were still a fetus? Is it meant rhetorically? As an exercise?

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 27 March 2013 10:15:29AM 3 points [-]

It's just the standard first question I ask for any theorem in this class. See my reply to Nisan below about some theorems by Stuart Armstrong.