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Vaniver comments on Consequences of the Non-Existence of Perfect Theoretical Rationality - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Vaniver 12 January 2016 04:35:00PM 0 points [-]

unbounded utility doesn't necessarily provide too much in the way of problems, unless you start averaging.

??? The whole point of utility is to average it. That's what motivations the decision-theoretic definition of utility.

Comment author: casebash 12 January 2016 09:31:06PM -1 points [-]

Not if you are a total utilitarian (average utilitarianism is largely incoherent anyway)

Comment author: gjm 12 January 2016 10:40:11PM 1 point [-]

If you compute expected utilities, you're averaging utility over possible worlds.

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