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Pentashagon comments on Brief Question about FAI approaches - Less Wrong Discussion

3 Post author: Dolores1984 19 September 2012 06:05AM

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Comment author: Pentashagon 20 September 2012 11:08:35PM 0 points [-]

Is the number of possible kittens bounded? That's the point I was missing earlier.

If the number of kittens is bounded by M, your maximum utility u_max is bounded by M times the constant utility of a kitten (M * u_kitten). Therefore u_kitten is bounded by 1/M.

Comment author: Cloppy 21 September 2012 02:05:09AM 1 point [-]

In future, consider expressing these arguments in terms of ponies. Why make a point using hypothetical utility functions, when you can make the same point by talking about what we really value?