timtyler comments on Why you must maximize expected utility - Less Wrong
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Both involve taking a mathematical result about the only way to do something in a way that satisfies certain intuitively appealing properties, and using it to argue that we therefore should do it that way.
A dictatorship isn't the only resolution to Arrow's theorem. Anyway, this sounds like a rather weak argument against the position.
It's an outside view argument.