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9 Post author: PhilGoetz 08 October 2011 01:33AM

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 19 October 2011 03:02:16PM *  3 points [-]

I do not think of them in terms of some abstract utility function

Why would you expect to think of your utility function as a utility function? That's like expecting a squirrel to think of the dispersion of nuts it buried around its tree as having a two-dimensional Gaussian distribution.