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Comment author: [deleted] 11 March 2012 05:56:11PM 1 point [-]

But then it would be more fair to speak about things like they really are.

I don't understand. Who is not speaking about things like they really are? EY doesn't even mention expected utility in his post. That was all a figment of someone's imagination.

If people are optimizing their expected utility functions, I want to believe they are optimizing their expected utility functions. If people are choosing on a heuristic and rationalizing later, I want to believe they are choosing on a heuristic and rationalizing later. Let me not become attached to status in a rationalist community.

No need to Gendlin. People aren't optimizing their utility functions, because they don't have conscious access to their utility functions.

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