Lumifer comments on Rationality Quotes March 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 05 March 2014 04:04:30PM 2 points [-]

If by doing something you are not maximizing some value, then it would be better if you did.

Not some value -- a lot of people are maximizing the wrong values.

One of the reasons why this whole thing is so complicated is that in reality people very rarely optimize for a single value. They optimize for a set of values which usually isn't too coherent and the weights for these values tend to fluctuate...