I don’t see how you can get people to stop talking about human utility functions unless you close LW off from newcomers.
Why would you want to stop people talking about human utility functions?!? People should not build economic models of humans? How are such things supposedly misleading? You are concerned people will drag in too much from Von Neumann and Morgenstern? What gives?
By contrast, the idea that humans don’t have utility functions seems to be mysterian nonsense. What sense can be made out of that idea?
Why would you want to stop people talking about human utility functions?!? People should not build economic models of humans? How are such things supposedly misleading? You are concerned people will drag in too much from Von Neumann and Morgenstern? What gives?
By contrast, the idea that humans don’t have utility functions seems to be mysterian nonsense. What sense can be made out of that idea?