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Re:Utility monster by stared on Friday May 15, 2020 @07:21AM (#23190881)
You don't get anyone hit 0 or 1. (Compare with probabilities predicted by a sigmoid - it never reaches 0 or 1.)
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Re:Utility monster by ben_w on Friday May 15, 2020 @07:50AM (#23191068)
Loose eyelashes vs factory farmed human flesh.

Both are finite pain/finite negative utility.

How many of the former must be avoided to equally balance the creation of one of the latter?

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Re:Utility monster by chaorace on Friday May 15, 2020 @09:13AM (#23191768)
Question: how is that mathematically different from bounding by negative & positive infinity?
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Re:Utility monster by stared on Friday May 15, 2020 @09:47AM (#23192092)
sigmoid(x_1 + ... + x_n) != sigmoid(x_1) + ... + sigmoid(x_n)
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