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Comment author: [deleted] 02 February 2013 04:35:37PM 0 points [-]

(And you're not allowed to compare utilities to magic numbers like 0, since that would be numerology.)

Unless you rescale everything so that magic numbers like 0 and 1 are actually utilities of possibilities under consideration.

But that's like cutting corners in the lab; dangerous if you don't know what you are doing, but useful if you do.