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Take 7: You should talk about "the human's utility function" less.
Charlie Steiner
12d
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177
Impossibility results for unbounded utilities
paulfchristiano
10mo
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The "Measuring Stick of Utility" Problem
johnswentworth
6mo
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Will Values and Competition Decouple?
interstice
2mo
11
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Better impossibility result for unbounded utilities
paulfchristiano
10mo
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Deriving Conditional Expected Utility from Pareto-Efficient Decisions
Thomas Kwa
7mo
1
119
An Orthodox Case Against Utility Functions
abramdemski
2y
53
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Inferring utility functions from locally non-transitive preferences
Jan
10mo
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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
117
Coherent decisions imply consistent utilities
Eliezer Yudkowsky
3y
81
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Utility ≠ Reward
vlad_m
3y
25
113
Degrees of Freedom
sarahconstantin
3y
31
100
Coherence arguments do not entail goal-directed behavior
Rohin Shah
4y
69
8
Thinking about Broad Classes of Utility-like Functions
Jemist
6mo
0
46
K-complexity is silly; use cross-entropy instead
So8res
1h
4
25
How can one literally buy time (from x-risk) with money?
Alex_Altair
7d
3
31
"Attention Passengers": not for Signs
jefftk
13d
10
16
Using Obsidian if you're used to using Roam
Solenoid_Entity
9d
4
14
Ponzi schemes can be highly profitable if your timing is good
GeneSmith
8d
18
6
Join the AI Testing Hackathon this Friday
Esben Kran
8d
0
16
Less Successful Cider Adventures
jefftk
25d
1
8
EA & LW Forums Weekly Summary (28th Nov - 4th Dec 22')
Zoe Williams
14d
1
14
What videos should Rational Animations make?
Writer
24d
23
14
NEFFA Should Allow Small Children
jefftk
25d
2
32
Weekly Roundup #3
Zvi
1mo
5
20
Better Mastodon Aliases
jefftk
1mo
3
12
Mastodon's Dubious Crawler Exemption
jefftk
23d
3
23
Electric Kettle vs Stove
jefftk
1mo
7