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The arguments in the posts themselves seem unimpressive to me in this context. If there are strong arguments that human actions cannot, in principle, be modelled well by using a utility function, perhaps they should be made explicit.
Agents which can't be modelled by a utility-based framework are:
AFAIK, there's no good evidence that either kind of agent can actually exist. Counter-arguments are welcome, of course.