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Relative to financial markets, to which I was analogizing.
Ok, then the mistaken interpretation was my fault, you weren't relevantly using the theoretical/applied dimension anywhere.
About decision theory. Perhaps utility maximizers were pulled towards game theory and thence economics and more narrow minded areas, while decision theory end up being maximized for oddness sometimes. That is, people who could attend to low hanging fruits were on areas where the background assumptions were unpopular,while people who could - perhaps - understand the background assumptions couldn't care less for utility.