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owencb 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: owencb 01 October 2014 01:45:15PM 2 points [-]

The first point that seems relatively obvious to me is that all rational agents will intentionally mis-state their utility functions as extremes for bargaining purposes.

Because we're working in an idealised hypothetical, we could decree that they can't do this (they must all wear their true utility functions on their sleeves). I don't see a disadvantage to demanding this.