Utilities (in humans) are real numbers ranging from 0 to 1,000 that take action potentials per second as their natural units.
I downvoted the post based off this quote. To the extent that utilities are referring to the kind of thing that we describe with that term on lesswrong utilities are not anywhere near as simple as that. In fact things that we ascribe negative utility to can be significantly positive on that kind of encoding. Nevermind that the sience is out of date.
Goodness, no, I don’t mean utility here in the usual LW sense. I’ve added a new clarifying sentence to item #1 here. As for your last sentence, see my reply to jacob_cannell.
I downvoted the post based off this quote. To the extent that utilities are referring to the kind of thing that we describe with that term on lesswrong utilities are not anywhere near as simple as that. In fact things that we ascribe negative utility to can be significantly positive on that kind of encoding. Nevermind that the sience is out of date.
Goodness, no, I don’t mean utility here in the usual LW sense. I’ve added a new clarifying sentence to item #1 here. As for your last sentence, see my reply to jacob_cannell.
Thankyou, I’m far more comfortable now!