I’m glad to be thinking along these lines, but I have a few concerns. First, it’s a bit sprawling, and this makes it hard to tell which parts are closer to mathematically sound and which are closer to informed speculation.
I generally am suspicious of any arguments that treats utility as a thing that can be stored and transferred. It’s much more compelling a model to talk about resources, and each human has a conversion rate to their utility for marginal changes in that resource. This leads to much better models than random noise, as you can include how much knowledge we have of others’ utility functions (and of our own, for that matter).
Also, it talks about white knight and how one feels about an action separately from the utility gained/lost. If you want to include these features, model them as utility—white knights have a lower utility conversion when the resource is less than they expected.
In fact, I glossed over ” I have White Knight tendencies myself, and much of this post is build up to “How I Avoid White Knighting” ” the first time. If it had been at the top (and maybe in the title), I would have read the post with a different mindset and would likely have gotten different value from it.
I’m glad to be thinking along these lines, but I have a few concerns. First, it’s a bit sprawling, and this makes it hard to tell which parts are closer to mathematically sound and which are closer to informed speculation.
I generally am suspicious of any arguments that treats utility as a thing that can be stored and transferred. It’s much more compelling a model to talk about resources, and each human has a conversion rate to their utility for marginal changes in that resource. This leads to much better models than random noise, as you can include how much knowledge we have of others’ utility functions (and of our own, for that matter).
Also, it talks about white knight and how one feels about an action separately from the utility gained/lost. If you want to include these features, model them as utility—white knights have a lower utility conversion when the resource is less than they expected.
In fact, I glossed over ” I have White Knight tendencies myself, and much of this post is build up to “How I Avoid White Knighting” ” the first time. If it had been at the top (and maybe in the title), I would have read the post with a different mindset and would likely have gotten different value from it.