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Academian comments on Interpersonal and intrapersonal utility comparisons - Less Wrong Discussion

11 Post author: AlexMennen 04 January 2013 03:05AM

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Comment author: Academian 04 January 2013 04:44:20AM *  6 points [-]

I'm pretty sure that the idea of the previous two paragraphs has been talked about before, but I can't find where.

On LessWrong: VNM expected utility theory: uses, abuses, and interpretation (shameless self-citation ;)

On Wikipedia: Limitations of the VNM utility theorem

Comment author: AlexMennen 04 January 2013 05:18:10AM 1 point [-]

Thanks!