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Gunnar_Zarncke comments on Truth vs Utility - Less Wrong Discussion

1 Post author: Qwake 13 August 2014 05:45AM

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Comment author: Creutzer 13 August 2014 10:45:45AM 3 points [-]

Granting the question's premise that we have a utility function, you have just defined option 1 as the rational choice.

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 13 August 2014 01:24:15PM 0 points [-]

Judging from the vote that doesn't seem to be the case. I guess the options are still not phrased precisely enough. Probably utility needs to be made more clear.

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