My utility function can’t be described by statistics; it involves purely irrational concepts such as “spirituality”, “aesthetics”, “humor”, “creativity”, “mysticism”, etc. These are the values I care about, and I see nothing in your calculations that takes them into account. So I am rejecting the entire project of LessWrong on these grounds.
The fact that you don’t see these things accounted for is a fact about your own perception, not about utilitarian values (which actually do account for these things).
The fact that you are reluctant to assign numbers to them is a feature of your own psychology, not whether they can in fact be modeled accurately by numbers.
Your rejection of Less Wrong and similar approaches is something you are free to do—but chances are you won’t find a better way to implement your most idealistic goals for the world than rationality.
The fact that you don’t see these things accounted for is a fact about your own perception, not about utilitarian values (which actually do account for these things).
The fact that you are reluctant to assign numbers to them is a feature of your own psychology, not whether they can in fact be modeled accurately by numbers.
Your rejection of Less Wrong and similar approaches is something you are free to do—but chances are you won’t find a better way to implement your most idealistic goals for the world than rationality.