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DanielVarga comments on Naturalism versus unbounded (or unmaximisable) utility options - Less Wrong Discussion

34 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 01 February 2013 05:45PM

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 06 February 2013 02:16:46PM 2 points [-]

then just focus on the third problem, which Wei has oddly rejected

I've often stated my worry that Omega can be used to express problems that have no real-world counterpart, thus distracting our attention away from problems that actually need to be solved. As I stated at the top of this thread, it seems to me that your third problem is such a problem.