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Manfred comments on Utility is unintuitive - Less Wrong Discussion

-5 Post author: jsteinhardt 09 December 2010 05:39AM

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Comment author: Manfred 09 December 2010 11:27:52PM 4 points [-]

Thinking about them as a currency is in general misleading, since they're not fungible - what is worth 1 util to you isn't necessarily worth 1 util to anyone else.