Richard_Hollerith2 comments on My Naturalistic Awakening - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Richard_Hollerith2 25 September 2008 02:54:24PM 0 points [-]

Roko, will you please exhibit a mind that you believe is not a utility maximizer? I am having trouble imagining one. For example, I consider a mind that maximizes the probability of some condition X coming to pass. Well, that is a utility maximizer in which possible futures satifying condition X have utility 1 whereas the other possible futures have utility 0. I consider a mind produced by natural selection, e.g., a mammalian mind or a human mind. Well, I see no reason to believe that that mind is not a utility maximizer with a complicated utility function that no one can describe completely, which to me is a different statement than saying the function does not exist.