shokwave comments on Rationality Quotes: November 2010 - Less Wrong
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Well, log does that. But so does square root also. Lots of functions have diminishing marginal returns.
Hmm. If we grab some study data on wealth's mathematical relationship with utility, we might be able to decide what function best approximates it. As it is, yeah, there is no reason to prefer log to square root to anything other function.