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Utility Functions
Unbounded Utilities
Coherence Arguments
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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
54
A summary of Savage's foundations for probability and utility.
Sniffnoy
11y
91
51
Time and Effort Discounting
Scott Alexander
11y
32
51
Three ways that "Sufficiently optimized agents appear coherent" can be false
Wei_Dai
3y
3
58
The "Measuring Stick of Utility" Problem
johnswentworth
6mo
22
21
Deriving Conditional Expected Utility from Pareto-Efficient Decisions
Thomas Kwa
7mo
1
46
Coherent behaviour in the real world is an incoherent concept
Richard_Ngo
3y
17