AlexMennen comments on Humans are utility monsters - Less Wrong

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Comment author: AlexMennen 24 August 2013 04:08:40PM 0 points [-]

That's right; being a utility monster is only with respect to an aggregation. However, the concept was invented and first talked about by people who thought there was a canonical aggregation, and as an unfortunate result, the dependency on the aggregation is typically not mentioned in the definition.

Comment author: Decius 27 August 2013 12:31:34AM 0 points [-]

I can't resolve paradoxes that come up with regard to people who have internally inconsistent value systems; were they afraid that the canonical aggregation was such that they personally were left out, in a manner that proved they were bad (because they preferred outcomes where they did better than they did at the global maximum of the canonical aggregation)?