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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
157
Impossibility results for unbounded utilities
paulfchristiano
10mo
104
15
Will Values and Competition Decouple?
interstice
2mo
11
128
An Orthodox Case Against Utility Functions
abramdemski
2y
53
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
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
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
7
Thinking about Broad Classes of Utility-like Functions
Jemist
6mo
0
47
Underappreciated points about utility functions (of both sorts)
Sniffnoy
2y
61
69
Probability is Real, and Value is Complex
abramdemski
4y
20
69
The "Measuring Stick of Utility" Problem
johnswentworth
6mo
22
23
Deriving Conditional Expected Utility from Pareto-Efficient Decisions
Thomas Kwa
7mo
1
63
Three ways that "Sufficiently optimized agents appear coherent" can be false
Wei_Dai
3y
3
49
Coherent behaviour in the real world is an incoherent concept
Richard_Ngo
3y
17