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Comment author: wedrifid 13 December 2010 04:33:00AM 1 point [-]

I think the actual issue I'm having is that I suspect that most people who claim to have unbounded utility functions would have been unwilling to make the trades implied by this before reading about VNM utility / "Shut up and multiply". So my objection is not that unbounded utility functions are inherently wrong, but that they cannot possibly reflect the preferences of a human.

On this I believe we approximately agree.

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