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sketerpot comments on Does the Utility Function Halt? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: sketerpot 28 January 2015 04:30:35AM *  4 points [-]

I'm not entirely sure what your argument is yet, but here's a simple example utility function that might be interesting as a baseline:

def utility(universe):
    return 42

This function halts for all inputs, and assigns each input a desirability value that can be compared with others. What sort of utility function are you imagining?