Lumifer comments on Against Expected Utility - Less Wrong

-3 Post author: Houshalter 23 September 2015 09:21PM

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Comment author: Lumifer 25 September 2015 02:44:20PM 2 points [-]

I do not understand where people are getting confused.

I just told you.

If you want to understand where people are getting confused, perhaps you should listen to them.

The preference should be too what extent it would make the same decisions you would.

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.

Comment author: gjm 25 September 2015 04:24:31PM 2 points [-]

Building a reasonably comprehensible system that replicates the preferences of a specific individual could at least be somewhat enlightening.

Comment author: Lumifer 25 September 2015 04:36:46PM 2 points [-]

Houshalter clearly wants not a descriptive, but a normative system.