Grue_Slinky comments on What are we assuming about utility functions?

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Whoops, mea culpa on that one! Deleted and changed to:

the main post there pointed out that seemingly anything can be trivially modeled as being a “utility maximizer” (further discussion here), whereas only some intelligent agents can be described as being “goal-directed” (as defined in this post), and the latter is a more useful concept for reasoning about AI safety.