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>> IOW, he thinks he's found a preference function that's strictly better than any other preference function >Yes - this seems like a major philosophical reach
by TuringTest 2y ago
>> IOW, he thinks he's found a preference function that's strictly better than any other preference function
>Yes - this seems like a major philosophical reach
On the contrary, I see as containing a trivial contradiction or paradox.
To evaluate what function is 'strictly better' than the rest, you need to use a ground preference function that defines 'better'; therefore, your whole search process is itself biased by the comparison method you choose to use for starters.
- tbrownaw 2y agoBetter according to whatever other preference function you started with, regardless of what it was.
- TuringTest 2y agoYeah, that's the point. The initial preference function will guide the whole process; unless you change after each step the preference function used to compare, in which case it may never converge to a stable point. And even if it converges, different initial functions could guide to totally different final results. That would make it hard to call any chosen function as "strictly better than any other".