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.
Doesn’t this contradict another comment of yours?
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.