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Comment author: jsteinhardt 13 June 2011 07:29:38AM *  0 points [-]

How do you construct utility without the VNM axioms? Are there less strong axioms for which a VNM-like result holds?

EDIT: Sorry if this is covered in the comments in the other article, I'm being a bit lazy here and not reading through all of your comments there in detail.

Comment author: endoself 14 June 2011 01:57:04AM 0 points [-]

How do you construct utility without the VNM axioms?

I don't yet. :) I have a few reason to think that it has a good chance of being possible, but it has not been done.

Comment author: jsteinhardt 14 June 2011 07:29:14AM 1 point [-]

Okay. If you end up being successful, I would be quite interested to know about it. (A counterexample would also be interesting, actually probably more interesting since it is less expected.)

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