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Squark comments on Open Thread, May 5 - 11, 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Squark 09 May 2014 06:28:38PM 0 points [-]

What I think is happening is that we're allowed to think of humans as having VNM utility functions ( see also my discussion with Stuart Armstrong ), but the utility function is not constant over time (since we're not introspective recursively modifying AIs that can keep their utility functions stable).