Can’t your utility function look like “number of paperclips times number of funny jokes” rather than a linear combination? Then situations where you accept very little humor in exchange for loads of paperclips are much rarer.
Relevant intuition: this trade-off makes me feel sad, so it can’t be what I really want. And I hear it’s proven that wanting can only work if it involves maximizing a function over the state of the universe.
Can’t your utility function look like “number of paperclips times number of funny jokes” rather than a linear combination? Then situations where you accept very little humor in exchange for loads of paperclips are much rarer.
Relevant intuition: this trade-off makes me feel sad, so it can’t be what I really want. And I hear it’s proven that wanting can only work if it involves maximizing a function over the state of the universe.