Learning of things doesn’t decrease or increase your utility function.
It depends on what is meant by “your utility function”. That’s true if you mean a mathematical idealization of a calculation performed in your nervous system that ignores your knowledge state, but false if you mean the actual result calculated by your nervous system.
It depends on what is meant by “your utility function”. That’s true if you mean a mathematical idealization of a calculation performed in your nervous system that ignores your knowledge state, but false if you mean the actual result calculated by your nervous system.