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Wakarimahen comments on Outline of Possible Sources of Values - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Wakarimahen 20 January 2013 04:26:40AM -2 points [-]

Why are you referring to all of those as one's "utility function"? I thought the term "utility function" referred to one's terminal values. Your last example seems to refer to one's terminal values, but the rest are just random instances of types of reasoning leading to instrumental values.