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Comment author: [deleted] 28 November 2011 12:34:53AM 0 points [-]

a state in which an agent cannot increase its expected utility by changing its utility function

Surely if you could change your utility function you could always increase your expected utility that way, e.g. by defining the new utility function to be the old utility function plus a positive constant.

Comment author: wnoise 28 November 2011 12:37:55AM *  1 point [-]

I think Normal_Anomaly means "judged according to the old utility function".

EDIT: Incorrect gender imputation corrected.

Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 28 November 2011 12:43:48AM *  3 points [-]

I do mean that, fixed. By the way, I am female (and support genderless third-person pronouns, FWIW).

Comment author: [deleted] 28 November 2011 10:28:00AM 0 points [-]

Thank you, that makes sense to me now.

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