timtyler comments on Against Discount Rates - Less Wrong
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Dragging in Omega to represent the huge quantities for the human seems to have been a desperate move.
Well, that's OK - but the issue is what shape the human utility function is. You can't just extrapolate out to infinity from a small number of samples near to the origin!
I think there are limits to human happiness and pain - and whatever else you care to invoke as part of the human utility function - so there's actually a finite representation with bounded utility - and I think that it is the best approximation to what the brain is actually doing.