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-3 Post author: jacob_cannell 18 December 2011 11:47PM

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Comment author: jacob_cannell 19 December 2011 02:35:44AM 1 point [-]

I hadn't yet read de Blanc's paper about unbounded utility functions.

When writing the post I was considering a limit for all utility functions: bounded and unbounded. Reading his paper it now seems that was an obvious mistake, a limit should hold only for the bounded variety.

Peter de Blanc shows that unbounded utility functions have much worse problems, but I don't think that convinces many people to give them up.

What could then?

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