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AlexMennen comments on [MIRIx Cambridge MA] Limiting resource allocation with bounded utility functions and conceptual uncertainty - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: AlexMennen 04 October 2014 07:14:01PM 0 points [-]

The point was to show that some utility functions (eg using the exponential-decay sigmoid) have counterintuitive properties that don't match what we'd actually want.

You still haven't answered my question of why we don't want those properties. To me, they don't seem counter-intuitive at all.