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6 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 12 February 2015 09:11PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 13 February 2015 11:18:33PM *  4 points [-]

Since human beings are not utility maximizes and intuition is based on comparison to our own reference class experience, I question your assumption that only VNM-rational agents would behave intuitively.

Comment author: dxu 15 February 2015 07:06:04PM *  0 points [-]

I'm not sure humans aren't utility maximizers. They simply don't maximize utility over worldstates. I do feel, however, that it's plausible humans are utility maximizers over brainstates.

(Also, even if humans aren't utility maximizers, that doesn't mean they will find the behavior other non-utility-maximizing agents intuitive. Humans often find the behavior of other humans extraordinarily unintuitive, for example--and these are identical brain designs we're talking about, here. If we start considering larger regions in mindspace, there's no guarantee that humans would like a non-utility-maximizing AI.)