I personally enjoy optimizing things, for example writing the fastest and/or most elegant code, or finding the best deal on a purchase.
I’m similar to a utility maximizer in many respects (e.g., has beliefs based on deduction and induction, considers consequences of actions, etc.) except that I don’t seem to have a utility function.
In what way do they contradict each other? Please explain.
If you know you have no utility function, why do you feel you’re an optimizer?
I guess I used the word “optimizer” because
I personally enjoy optimizing things, for example writing the fastest and/or most elegant code, or finding the best deal on a purchase.
I’m similar to a utility maximizer in many respects (e.g., has beliefs based on deduction and induction, considers consequences of actions, etc.) except that I don’t seem to have a utility function.
Here you say you’re an optimizer, and there you say you have no utility function. Or am I misunderstanding something?
One of them assumes that you’re optimizing something, and the other one says that you aren’t.