lukstafi comments on Mahatma Armstrong: CEVed to death. - Less Wrong

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Comment author: lukstafi 10 June 2013 12:11:47AM 0 points [-]

An interesting problem with CEV is demonstrated in chapter 5 "On the Rationality of Preferences" of Hilary Putnam "The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy and Other Essays". The problem is that a person might assign value to that a choice of a preference, underdetermined at a given time, being of her own free will.