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Caledonian, if utility is any function defined on amounts of money, then if you are maximizing expected utility, you *cannot* fall prey to the Allais paradox. You can define a utility function on gambles that is *not* the expected value of a utility function on amounts of money, but then that function is not *expected* utility, and you're outside of normal models of risk aversion, and you're violating rationality axioms like the one Eliezer gave in the OP.