Wei_Dai comments on The Preference Utilitarian’s Time Inconsistency Problem - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 15 January 2010 11:55:03PM 3 points [-]

Turns out, the best deals look a lot like maximizing weighted averages of the utilities of affected parties.

I disagree. Certainly there are examples where the best deals do not look like maximizing weighted averages of the utilities of affected parties, and I gave one here. Are you aware of some argument that these kinds of situations are not likely in real life?

I also agree with mattnewport's point, BTW.