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timtyler comments on Utility is unintuitive - Less Wrong Discussion

-5 Post author: jsteinhardt 09 December 2010 05:39AM

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Comment author: timtyler 10 December 2010 05:28:47PM 0 points [-]

It is the most commonly dropped axiom. Dropping it has the advantage of allowing you use the framework to model a wider range of intelligent agents - increasing the scope of the model.