It certainly does if the utility function doesn’t refer to anything indexical; and an agent with an indexical utility function can build another agent (not a copy of itself, though) with a differently-represented (non-indexical) utility function that represents the same third-person preference ordering.
It certainly does if the utility function doesn’t refer to anything indexical; and an agent with an indexical utility function can build another agent (not a copy of itself, though) with a differently-represented (non-indexical) utility function that represents the same third-person preference ordering.