That’s a whole conversation! I probably shouldn’t start talking about this, since I don’t have the time to do it justice.
In the main, I feel that humans are not easily modelled by a utility function, but we have meta-preferences that cause us to hate facing the kind of trade-offs that utility functions imply. I’d bet most people would pay to not have their preferences replaced with a utility function, no matter how well defined it was.
That’s a whole conversation! I probably shouldn’t start talking about this, since I don’t have the time to do it justice.
In the main, I feel that humans are not easily modelled by a utility function, but we have meta-preferences that cause us to hate facing the kind of trade-offs that utility functions imply. I’d bet most people would pay to not have their preferences replaced with a utility function, no matter how well defined it was.
But that’s a conversation for after the baby!