Said Achmiz comments on Underappreciated points about utility functions (of both sorts)

Said Achmiz 5 Jan 2020 13:21 UTC
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Er, sorry, but I didn’t use the phrase “feels inconsistent” (nor any other construction involving “feel”)… what are you referring to?
- Mark_Friedenbach 5 Jan 2020 13:50 UTC
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  Sorry that was sloppy of me:
  
  And yet the output was not ‘consistent’ in the way we’re discussing!
  - Said Achmiz 5 Jan 2020 15:19 UTC
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    Oh—I wasn’t saying anything new there; I was just referring back to the first sentence of that paragraph:
    
    In fact, in practice—to take an immediate example—the output of reflection in my case has been to demonstrate that my preferences do not conform to the VNM axioms (and therefore cannot be represented with a utility function).