Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on The "Intuitions" Behind "Utilitarianism" - Less Wrong

29 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 28 January 2008 04:29PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 29 January 2008 07:45:00PM 0 points [-]

Peter, I'm not sure what the chain of causality was there. (Let me know if I've previously written it down.) I think you or Nick Hay said that utility functions obey positive affine transformations, Marcello said that preserved the ratios of intervals, and I sketched out the interpretation for optimization problems.

I just meant that I haven't seen it elsewhere in the Literature. You're right, I should have credited the Summer of AI group.