Will_Sawin comments on Value Stability and Aggregation - Less Wrong
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I suggest the "There are several voting systems that side-step these requirements by using cardinal utility (which conveys more information than rank orders)" solution.
Fair point, and I now see that this is exactly what the post is about: assuming we have cardinal measurements, the problem becomes weighting in order to make interpersonal utility comparisons.