Qiaochu_Yuan comments on Open thread, January 25- February 1 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 27 January 2014 07:29:36PM *  0 points [-]

Depending on your preferred framework, this is in some sense backwards: utility is, by definition, that thing which it is always correct to choose the action with the highest expected value of (say, in the framework of the von Neumann-Morgenstern theorem).