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In exploring people's preferences I have discovered that I am weird. I don't think positive utility cancels out negative utility.
I've recently been made aware of the fact that it is more likely that it is a specific kind of middle class farmer culture (in the hansonian sense) sexual norm that I am objecting to, not a universal one.
it isn't my conclusion, though I'm too lazy to dig up the citations right now.
As for things getting better despite everyone fighting against it, yes, that is basically what I believe. Tech innovation has been and continues to be sharply limited by crappy social conditions.
It would seem that you are using a different definition of the word "utility" than the one which is used in technical game theoretical analysis.
yes this is true.
Well, suffice to say I agree that utility models are pretty terrible for modeling people.
The depression / creativity thing I have heard before, and is possibly quite true, though luckily it's not a hard-and-fast rule.