AlexMennen comments on Humans are utility monsters - Less Wrong

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Comment author: AlexMennen 19 August 2013 09:23:47PM 3 points [-]

Wikipedia does not cite a source for its claim that utility monsters have anything to do with non-decreasing marginal utility, nor does the claim make any sense at all. Does anyone know if some wikipedian just made this up, or whether it was published somewhere previously? I've also asked about this on the wikipedia article's talk page. If no one can find any prior source for the statement, I will edit it.