army1987 comments on On manipulating others - Less Wrong

-4 Post author: Jonii 16 June 2013 05:44PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 21 June 2013 07:05:27PM 0 points [-]

a theoretical utility-maximiser might have sex with people they're not attracted to, sure

It depends on what their utility function is -- assuming the orthogonality thesis, for any X whatsoever there's a theoretical utility maximiser who might do X, so that's not terribly informative about X.