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19 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 28 July 2014 06:05PM

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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 02 August 2014 07:23:01AM 1 point [-]

Relate this to value loading. If the programmer says cake, you value cake; if they say death, you value death. You could see this as choosing between two utilities, or you could see it as having a single utility function where "what the programmer says" strongly distinguishes between otherwise identical universes.