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Qiaochu_Yuan comments on "Stupid" questions thread - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 17 July 2013 07:04:37PM 3 points [-]

Look, let's not keep doing this thing where whenever someone fails to completely specify their utility function you take whatever partial heuristic they wrote down and try to poke holes in it. I already had this conversation in the comments to this post and I don't feel like having it again. Steelmanning is important in this context given complexity of value.