AdeleneDawner comments on Post Your Utility Function - Less Wrong

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Comment author: AdeleneDawner 05 June 2009 08:07:17PM 2 points [-]

I think pjeby's point was that reflective consistency is a way of thinking - so if you commit to thinking in a reflectively consistent way, you will think in that way when you think, but you may still wind up not acting according to that kind of thoughts every time you would want to, because you're not entirely likely to notice that you need to think them in the first place.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 05 June 2009 08:13:38PM 0 points [-]

Reflective consistency is not about a way of thinking. Decision theory, considered in the simplest case, talks about properties of actions, including future actions, while ignoring properties of the algorithm generating the actions.