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Utility Functions
Coherence Arguments
Unbounded Utilities
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VNM Theorem
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Take 7: You should talk about "the human's utility function" less.
Charlie Steiner
12d
22
9
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
29
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
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
54
A summary of Savage's foundations for probability and utility.
Sniffnoy
11y
91
4
Continuity axiom of vNM
Stuart_Armstrong
8y
13
11
Generalizing Foundations of Decision Theory
abramdemski
5y
0
15
VNM agents and lotteries involving an infinite number of possible outcomes
AlexMennen
9y
8
17
Consequences of arbitrage: expected cash
Stuart_Armstrong
13y
28
20
Verifying vNM-rationality requires an ontology
jeyoor
3y
5
44
Why you must maximize expected utility
Benya
10y
77
12
Computational efficiency reasons not to model VNM-rational preference relations with utility functions
AlexMennen
4y
5
25
VNM expected utility theory: uses, abuses, and interpretation
Academian
12y
51
27
Money pumping: the axiomatic approach
Stuart_Armstrong
13y
93
10
An Attempt at Preference Uncertainty Using VNM
9y
33
46
Don't Get Distracted by the Boilerplate
johnswentworth
4y
13