Lumifer comments on Open thread, Oct. 19 - Oct. 25, 2015 - Less Wrong
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No, I do not. I do not think that humans have coherent utility functions. I don't think utilities of different people can be meaningfully combined, too.
Ah, yes, the famous business plan of the underpants gnomes...
No, I do not. They might be best given some definitions of "best" and given some conditionals, but they are not always best regardless of anything.
What makes you think it is possible?