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Utility Functions
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Take 7: You should talk about "the human's utility function" less.
Charlie Steiner
12d
22
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Will Values and Competition Decouple?
interstice
2mo
11
51
The Allais Paradox
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
145
20
Better impossibility result for unbounded utilities
paulfchristiano
10mo
24
15
The Doubling Box
Mestroyer
10y
84
40
I’m no longer sure that I buy dutch book arguments and this makes me skeptical of the "utility function" abstraction
Eli Tyre
1y
29
53
The Human's Hidden Utility Function (Maybe)
lukeprog
10y
90
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Inferring utility functions from locally non-transitive preferences
Jan
10mo
15
105
Utility ≠ Reward
vlad_m
3y
25
40
Bayesian Utility: Representing Preference by Probability Measures
Vladimir_Nesov
13y
37
4
Continuity axiom of vNM
Stuart_Armstrong
8y
13
19
Allais Hack -- Transform Your Decisions!
MBlume
13y
19
49
Tendencies in reflective equilibrium
Scott Alexander
11y
70
51
Three ways that "Sufficiently optimized agents appear coherent" can be false
Wei_Dai
3y
3
28
K-complexity is silly; use cross-entropy instead
So8res
1h
4
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Ponzi schemes can be highly profitable if your timing is good
GeneSmith
8d
18
96
wrapper-minds are the enemy
nostalgebraist
6mo
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What videos should Rational Animations make?
Writer
24d
23
23
"Attention Passengers": not for Signs
jefftk
13d
10
7
Cerebras Systems unveils a record 1.2 trillion transistor chip for AI
avturchin
3y
4
-31
ChatGPT's new novel rationality technique of fact checking
ChristianKl
9d
5
21
How can one literally buy time (from x-risk) with money?
Alex_Altair
7d
3
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A Poem for S.B.F.
AnthonyRepetto
1mo
21
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Using Obsidian if you're used to using Roam
Solenoid_Entity
9d
4
18
Can you define "utility" in utilitarianism without using words for specific human emotions?
SurvivalBias
3mo
46
8
Cryptic symbols
Adam Scherlis
1mo
17
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An argument on animal consciousness (soliciting criticism)
SciHamster
9d
2
14
Rob B's Shortform Feed
Rob Bensinger
3y
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