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torekp comments on Polymath-style attack on the Parliamentary Model for moral uncertainty - Less Wrong Discussion

22 Post author: danieldewey 26 September 2014 01:51PM

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Comment author: torekp 27 September 2014 10:56:16PM 3 points [-]

Can MPs have unknown utility functions? For example, I might have a relatively low confidence in all explicitly formulated moral theories, and want to give a number of MPs to System 1 - but I don't know in advance how System 1 will vote. Is that problem outside the scope of the parliamentary model (i.e., I can't nominate MPs who don't "know" how they will vote)?

Can MPs have undecidable preference orderings (or sub-orderings)? E.g., such an MP might have some moral axioms that provide orderings for some bills but not others.