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Lumifer comments on Rationality test: Vote for trump - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 22 June 2016 05:14:30PM 2 points [-]

to their benefit

You assert this as if it were an axiom. It doesn't look like one to me. Show me the benefit.

And I still don't understand why would I want to become an ideal utility maximizer.

Comment author: Liron 02 July 2016 08:54:00PM 0 points [-]

For the sake of organization, I suggest discussing such things on the comment threads of Sequence posts.

Comment author: JEB_4_PREZ_2016 25 June 2016 03:50:56PM 0 points [-]

And I still don't understand why would I want to become an ideal utility maximizer.

If you could flip a switch right now that makes you an ideal utility maximizer, you wouldn't do it?

Comment author: Lumifer 26 June 2016 02:02:57AM 0 points [-]

Who gets to define my utility function? I don't have one at the moment.

Comment author: entirelyuseless 25 June 2016 09:04:16PM 0 points [-]

I would never flip a switch like that.

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