eli_sennesh comments on Against utility functions - Less Wrong

40 Post author: Qiaochu_Yuan 19 June 2014 05:56AM

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Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 22 June 2014 06:26:33PM 1 point [-]

we need to replace it with some other desiderata for preventing self-contradictory preferences that cause no-win scenarios.

Why?

Comment author: [deleted] 23 June 2014 05:11:36AM 0 points [-]

Do you want to program an agent to put you in a no-win scenario? Do you want to put yourself in a no-win scenario?