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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 08 December 2011 09:36:21AM 0 points [-]

Sorry if this is answered elsewhere but I thought interpersonal comparisons of utility were generally considered to be impossible.

It's hard. You can do it, in many ways, but most of the properties you'd want to have cannot be had. The max-min method of normalisation I mentioned has the most of the intuitive properties (despite not being very intuitive itself).

Comment author: crazy88 09 December 2011 07:36:22AM 0 points [-]

If you have the time, I'd be interested to know what these desirable properties are (or would be happy to read a paper on the topic if you have one to suggest).

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 09 December 2011 09:02:44AM 0 points [-]

We're working on those at the moment, so they're still in flux; but we'll put them out there once we've firmed them up.

Comment author: crazy88 09 December 2011 10:09:38PM 0 points [-]

Cool, I'll keep my eye out.

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