This is a side note, but if you have complicated desires and live in a complicated world, it’s probably not possible to maximize your utility anyway. For instance, let’s say you want to be queen of the universe, and you live in an infinite universe, with infinitely many agents in it at infinite levels of power. You may need to make some compromises.
This is a side note, but if you have complicated desires and live in a complicated world, it’s probably not possible to maximize your utility anyway. For instance, let’s say you want to be queen of the universe, and you live in an infinite universe, with infinitely many agents in it at infinite levels of power. You may need to make some compromises.