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That is, we can view the agent as pursuing a [1fw utility function] that takes on different values in different subsets of possible worlds.\n\nFor example, an agent might have a [meta_utility meta-utility function] saying that eating cake has a utility of €8 in worlds where Lee Harvey Oswald shot John F. Kennedy and that eating cake has a utility of €10 in worlds where it was the other way around. This agent will be motivated to inquire into political history to find out which utility function is probably the 'correct' one (relative to this meta-utility function).]\n\n"Moral uncertainty" in the context of AI refers to an agent with an "uncertain utility function". That is, we can view the agent as pursuing a [1fw utility function] that takes on different values in different subsets of possible worlds.\n\nFor example, an agent might have a [meta_utility meta-utility function] saying that eating cake has a utility of €8 in worlds where Lee Harvey Oswald shot John F. Kennedy and that eating cake has a utility of €10 in worlds where it was the other way around. This agent will be motivated to inquire into political history to find out which utility function is probably the 'correct' one (relative to this meta-utility function), though it will never be [4mq absolutely sure].\n\nMoral uncertainty must be resolvable by some conceivable observation in order to function as uncertainty. 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