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Slider comments on CEV-tropes - Less Wrong Discussion

8 Post author: snarles 22 September 2014 06:21PM

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Comment author: Slider 23 September 2014 07:50:09AM 3 points [-]

For group decisions that require unanimity very little passes the process. Raising the bar to formal provability drops even more out of the equation. The CEV might very well be a very trivial common denominator such as "people should live good lifes".

Comment author: savageorange 24 September 2014 02:44:56PM 1 point [-]

There is a reasonable question about why it is that "For group decisions that require unanimity very little passes the process.". How much of this effect is honest difference in values, and how much is mere linguistic artifacts caused by our tiny communication bandwidth and how sloppily we use it.

IMO any CEV algorithm that had any hope of making sense would have to ignore words and map actual concepts together.