Re: Two utilities? (was Re: Bound unhappiness below)

From: Thomas McCabe (pphysics141@gmail.com)
Date: Wed May 07 2008 - 17:19:20 MDT


On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Tim Freeman <tim@fungible.com> wrote:
> From: "Stuart Armstrong" <dragondreaming@googlemail.com>
> >You own utility and the utility you have regarding others are quite
> >different things.
>
> I make one decision about what to do, so I need to assign one score
> the different alternatives if I'm going to choose the best. So what's
> the point of having two quite different utilities?
> --
> Tim Freeman http://www.fungible.com tim@fungible.com
>

If I understand correctly, Stuart is distinguishing between your
personal (non-renormalized) utility function and the utility function
you'd want the AI to follow.

-- 
 - Tom
http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/tom


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