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Utility Functions
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Unbounded Utilities
47
Take 7: You should talk about "the human's utility function" less.
Charlie Steiner
12d
22
15
Will Values and Competition Decouple?
interstice
2mo
11
53
The Allais Paradox
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
145
22
The Doubling Box
Mestroyer
10y
84
45
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
64
The Human's Hidden Utility Function (Maybe)
lukeprog
10y
90
28
Inferring utility functions from locally non-transitive preferences
Jan
10mo
15
102
Utility ≠ Reward
vlad_m
3y
25
45
Bayesian Utility: Representing Preference by Probability Measures
Vladimir_Nesov
13y
37
22
Allais Hack -- Transform Your Decisions!
MBlume
13y
19
53
Tendencies in reflective equilibrium
Scott Alexander
11y
70
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A summary of Savage's foundations for probability and utility.
Sniffnoy
11y
91
65
Time and Effort Discounting
Scott Alexander
11y
32
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Against the Linear Utility Hypothesis and the Leverage Penalty
AlexMennen
5y
47
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Better impossibility result for unbounded utilities
paulfchristiano
10mo
24
157
Impossibility results for unbounded utilities
paulfchristiano
10mo
104