army1987 comments on We Don't Have a Utility Function - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 06 April 2013 08:14:36AM *  1 point [-]

Whether you have terminal values is a more-complicated question, for uninteresting reasons such as quantum mechanical considerations.

What? Not having terminal values means that either you don't care about anything at all, or that “the recursive chain of valuableness” is infinitely deep. Neither of these seems likely to me.

Comment author: PrawnOfFate 14 April 2013 06:22:30PM 1 point [-]

I think there's a third possibility: values have a circular, strange-loop structure.