Psy-Kosh comments on Aiming at the Target - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Psy-Kosh 27 October 2008 04:37:35PM 0 points [-]

You know, I've been thinking that I'm having trouble saying exactly what a "preference" is.

"that which an optimization process selects for" would seem to more or less declare everything an optimization process.

Anyone got a decent reduction on the notion of a preference itself? I'm kinda annoyed that I don't seem to be able to quite work that out.