owencb comments on Polymath-style attack on the Parliamentary Model for moral uncertainty - Less Wrong

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Comment author: owencb 29 September 2014 01:08:47AM 6 points [-]

Harsanyi's theorem will tell us that it will after the fact be equivalent to some normalisation -- but the way you normalise preferences may vary with the set of preferences in the parliament (and the credences they have). And from a calculation elsewhere in this comment thread I think it will have to vary with these things.

I don't know if such a thing is still best thought of as a 'rule for normalising preferences'. It still seems interesting to me.

Comment author: AlexMennen 29 September 2014 01:18:47AM 2 points [-]

Yes, that sounds right. Harsanyi's theorem was what I was thinking of when I made the claim, and then I got confused for a while when I saw your counterexample.