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From my work with modeling an simulation you only approximate when you can do no better. In the case of calculating "utility," ostensibly towards some decision based reasoning, that isn't good enough. At least for me. There are too many exogenous variables currently.
You seem to be implying that you can do better. Please tell us how; how do you approximate the utility curve of the human population, and how do you know that your approximation is "better" than a linear one?
Quite the contrary - I am saying it is currently impossible; thus in my view useless for accurate predictive models which should be applied to decision making. I think this is all great philosophy and science but once we start talking about individual "utility functions" we are talking fantasy. This is where I diverge with the consequentialist camp (granted I used to be a consequentialist).