Some people may think that the free parameters in Bayes/VNM point towards the Orthogonality Thesis being true.
and I’m just confused by those people’s inferences / the arguments grounded in vNM that they give.
Perhaps instead of “I guess you mean” I should have written “I guess (you mean that) those people think / the argument is that”.
On the second point, I was not assuming [Diagonality v StrongOrthogonality], but I did misread what you were arguing for there, so sorry, and thanks for the correction.
Ah. I think the inference they may take is that a paperclip maximizer is perfectly rational/coherent, as is a staple maximizer and so on. They don’t think there are additional constraints as you suggest, beyond minimal ones like not having an “especially stupid” goal, such as “die as fast as possible”.
Yeah, but you open with
and I’m just confused by those people’s inferences / the arguments grounded in vNM that they give.
Perhaps instead of “I guess you mean” I should have written “I guess (you mean that) those people think / the argument is that”.
On the second point, I was not assuming [Diagonality v StrongOrthogonality], but I did misread what you were arguing for there, so sorry, and thanks for the correction.
Ah. I think the inference they may take is that a paperclip maximizer is perfectly rational/coherent, as is a staple maximizer and so on. They don’t think there are additional constraints as you suggest, beyond minimal ones like not having an “especially stupid” goal, such as “die as fast as possible”.