Nick_Tarleton comments on Anthropomorphic Optimism - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 05 August 2008 09:36:49PM 0 points [-]

Since we don't currently have utility functions, should we assign vastly greater weight to scenarios where our values renormalize to something resembling an unbounded utility function than a bounded one?

steven: is there a similar spatial argument to bound the utility attainable at any given time?