SoullessAutomaton comments on Post Your Utility Function - Less Wrong

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Comment author: SoullessAutomaton 04 June 2009 08:51:28PM *  2 points [-]

But why would you sell the house and buy a car? Because you place higher utility on having one of each, which is precisely my point.

The fact that two houses can be converted into more fungible resources than two cars is true, but is, as thomblake said, missing the point.