gjm comments on [MIRIx Cambridge MA] Limiting resource allocation with bounded utility functions and conceptual uncertainty - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gjm 05 October 2014 06:15:52PM 0 points [-]

I was doubting the underlying assumption

Oh, I see. OK.

a finite computer can't store an infinite number of models [...]

For sure. Nor, indeed, can our finite brains. (This is one reason why our actual utility functions, in so far as we have them, probably are bounded. Of course that isn't a good reason to use bounded utility functions in theoretical analyses unless all we're hoping to do is to understand the behaviour of a single human brain.)