Von Neumann-Morgenstern Utility Theory

Used to analyze preference strength; utility functions unique only up to affine transformations, complicating interpersonal comparison

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Interpersonal Utility Comparison
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The problem of comparing welfare across agents with different utility functions, relevant to assessing preference-strength super-beneficiaries

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Expected Utility Theoryframework0.720
Economic framework for decision-making under risk.
Mirror Neuron Theoryframework0.688
Neuroscientific theory suggesting empathy is mediated by neural self-other overlap; motivates SOO approach
Multi-Level Selection Theoryframework0.684
Framework dividing covariance of character and fitness into between-collective and within-collective components; addresses limitation of kin selection.
Von Neumann Replication Modelframework0.679
Von Neumann Self-Replicating Machineconcept0.674
Theoretical machines capable of making perfect copies of themselves, used to argue machines can themselves make machines
Multilevel Selection Theoryframework0.672
Von Neumann Architectureconcept0.671
Discrete digital computing model; paper argues brains fundamentally diverge from von Neumann principles through hybrid, scale-inseparable computation.
Utilitarian theory is embarrassed by the possibility of utility monsters who get enormously greater sums of utility from any sacrifice of others than these others lose.quote0.663
Nozick's formulation of the utility monster problem, the foundational thought experiment for the paper