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Take 7: You should talk about "the human's utility function" less.
Charlie Steiner
12d
22
157
Impossibility results for unbounded utilities
paulfchristiano
10mo
104
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The "Measuring Stick of Utility" Problem
johnswentworth
6mo
22
15
Will Values and Competition Decouple?
interstice
2mo
11
128
An Orthodox Case Against Utility Functions
abramdemski
2y
53
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Deriving Conditional Expected Utility from Pareto-Efficient Decisions
Thomas Kwa
7mo
1
29
Better impossibility result for unbounded utilities
paulfchristiano
10mo
24
28
Inferring utility functions from locally non-transitive preferences
Jan
10mo
15
139
Coherent decisions imply consistent utilities
Eliezer Yudkowsky
3y
81
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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
102
Utility ≠ Reward
vlad_m
3y
25
103
Degrees of Freedom
sarahconstantin
3y
31
101
Coherence arguments do not entail goal-directed behavior
Rohin Shah
4y
69
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Thinking about Broad Classes of Utility-like Functions
Jemist
6mo
0
37
K-complexity is silly; use cross-entropy instead
So8res
1h
4
23
How can one literally buy time (from x-risk) with money?
Alex_Altair
7d
3
19
Using Obsidian if you're used to using Roam
Solenoid_Entity
9d
4
27
"Attention Passengers": not for Signs
jefftk
13d
10
10
Join the AI Testing Hackathon this Friday
Esben Kran
8d
0
30
What videos should Rational Animations make?
Writer
24d
23
10
EA & LW Forums Weekly Summary (28th Nov - 4th Dec 22')
Zoe Williams
14d
1
4
Ponzi schemes can be highly profitable if your timing is good
GeneSmith
8d
18
119
why assume AGIs will optimize for fixed goals?
nostalgebraist
6mo
52
11
Less Successful Cider Adventures
jefftk
25d
1
23
Weekly Roundup #3
Zvi
1mo
5
10
NEFFA Should Allow Small Children
jefftk
25d
2
9
Mastodon's Dubious Crawler Exemption
jefftk
23d
3
14
Better Mastodon Aliases
jefftk
1mo
3