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Comment author: timtyler 08 December 2011 12:44:18PM *  -1 points [-]

Another way to aggregate utility functions is by simulated bargaining, but it's biased in favor of rich and powerful people.

The same rich and powerful people who are most likely to be funding the research, maybe?

Today, to resolve their differences, people mostly just bargain I.R.L.

They do simulate bargains in their heads, but only to help them with the actual bargaining.