Cyan comments on Post Your Utility Function - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Cyan 06 June 2009 04:18:49AM *  0 points [-]

I'm surprised at your surprise. Even granting that humans could possibly be innately reflectively self-consistent, there's a huge curse of dimensionality problem in specifying the damn thing. ETA: The problem with the dimensionality is that interactions between the dimensions abound; ceteris paribus assumptions can't get you very far at all.

Comment author: taw 06 June 2009 04:24:18AM 0 points [-]

I was expecting noise, and maybe a few iterations before reaching satisfying results, but it seems we cannot even get that much, and it surprises me.