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jsalvatier comments on Against utility functions - Less Wrong Discussion

40 Post author: Qiaochu_Yuan 19 June 2014 05:56AM

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Comment author: jsalvatier 20 June 2014 07:06:15PM 1 point [-]

Even if you don't think it's the ideal, utility based decision theory it does give us insights that I don't think you can naturally pick up from anywhere else that we've discovered yet.