Kindly comments on Terminology suggestion: Say "degrees utility" instead of "utils" to prompt affine thinking - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Kindly 18 May 2013 11:50:48PM *  7 points [-]

Another option is to replace "50 utils" or "50 degrees utility" with "50 utils". Yes, always. The wiki link would have to be updated to address the affine caveat (as well as some others) but it might be worth it.

Edit: yet another option is to explicitly include a constant: "50+C utils". This has a fine tradition stemming from calculus. If necessary, it could be combined with my previous suggestion.