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Comment author: DanielLC 27 July 2012 07:37:41PM 0 points [-]

You could make the same point with wine in classical physics. It tastes better if you wait longer, but how long should you wait?

You don't even need an unbounded utility function. Perhaps the value at time t is 1-2^-t.

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