Lumifer comments on Against Expected Utility - Less Wrong
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I just told you.
If you want to understand where people are getting confused, perhaps you should listen to them.
Huh? First, why would I need a system to make the same decisions I'm going to make by default? Second, who is that "you"? For particular values of "you", building a system that replicates the preferences of that specific individual is going to be a really bad idea.
Building a reasonably comprehensible system that replicates the preferences of a specific individual could at least be somewhat enlightening.
Houshalter clearly wants not a descriptive, but a normative system.