Lightwave comments on Post Your Utility Function - Less Wrong

28 Post author: taw 04 June 2009 05:05AM

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Comment author: Lightwave 04 June 2009 09:31:41AM 0 points [-]

Do people care more about money's absolute value, or more about its relative value to what other people have? Does our utility function have a term for other people in it which is it in conflict with other people's utility functions?

Comment author: taw 06 June 2009 12:43:36AM 0 points [-]

Even without bothering about rest of the world, just things that directly affect me, I totally failed, so I see no reason to think about such complications yet.