CalmCanary comments on Does the Utility Function Halt? - Less Wrong

3 Post author: OrphanWilde 28 January 2015 04:08AM

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Comment author: CalmCanary 28 January 2015 03:13:37PM 2 points [-]

OrphanWilde appears to be talking about morality, not decision theory. The moral Utility Function of utilitarianism is not necessarily the decision-theoretic utility function of any agent, unless you happen to have a morally perfect agent lying around, so your procedure would not work.