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Comment author: wedrifid 20 March 2012 07:42:48AM *  1 point [-]

(Think about it! For your underlying system, that's a huge fraction of worth of your life! It's the utility loss comparable to being forced to play Russian roulette with live bullets, several times in the row!), and microscopic utilon loss for being rejected.

Our underlying system assigns massive utilon loss for being rejected. Far more than either current reproductive maximisation incentives or our own practical hedonistic interests would assign. ('Think about it'...)

Comment author: [deleted] 20 March 2012 06:09:19PM 1 point [-]

You mean "hedon loss", right? Yeah, we do hate being rejected, but I'm not sure we should.

Comment author: wedrifid 20 March 2012 09:52:06PM 0 points [-]

You mean "hedon loss", right?

I mean the utilon calculation done by the crudely specified 'underlying system', which we infer based on observed behavior and reported experience. That's not quite the same as "hedon loss" but it is also a very different thing to "utilon loss" as could be described from the perspective of an anthropomorphized agent that seeks to maximise inclusive genetic fitness.

Yeah, we do hate being rejected, but I'm not sure we should.

Yes, the thing that adds up to this!

Comment author: [deleted] 20 March 2012 10:54:54PM *  2 points [-]

I mean the utilon calculation done by the crudely specified 'underlying system', which we infer based on observed behavior and reported experience.

Which doesn't do any utilon calculation, anyway. :-)

(Edited to add more links.)