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Why does everybody think that utilitarianism necessarily means consciously crunching real numbers?
Surreal numbers are a more natural fit - as argued by Conway. Otherwise, it is less convenient to model preferences where arbitrarily low probabilities of B are worth more than certainty of A, while A still has some value.