@tipsfromkatee my opinion is that human preferences are hacked-together nonsense that sometimes look coherent if you squint.
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Replying to @admittedlyhuman
@admittedlyhuman the failings of vnm as a descriptive model are well-known and i can't tell if you're saying anything beyond that1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @GapOfGods
@tipsfromkatee ouch my contrarian pride. why do people use a model that doesn't model human preference then?2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @admittedlyhuman
@admittedlyhuman if the vnm axioms are true statements about what people should do then so is expected utility theory & this is important1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @GapOfGods
@tipsfromkatee they're not-even-false statements about what people should do. the preferences they deal with are divorced from reality.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @admittedlyhuman
@admittedlyhuman whereas i'm making the weaker claim that there exists a utility function such that people should maximise its expectation1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @GapOfGods
@admittedlyhuman and it's not necessarily one straightforwardly derived from iffy preference-based predictive models of humans1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @GapOfGods
@tipsfromkatee I'm leery of a "should" that doesn't spring straightforwardly from human preferences. I'm a moral whimsicalist.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @admittedlyhuman
@tipsfromkatee like if you have a convincingly-correct non-straightforward way to turn preferences into morality, ok, I am listening.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @admittedlyhuman
@tipsfromkatee but without a candidate to actually point to it seems like wishful thinking.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@admittedlyhuman it's not wishful thinking, it's theoremful thinking
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