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roystgnr comments on What resources have increasing marginal utility? - Less Wrong Discussion

36 Post author: Qiaochu_Yuan 14 June 2014 03:43AM

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Comment author: roystgnr 16 June 2014 02:55:58AM 1 point [-]

Linear functions on closed bounded domains can (and on finite dimensional closed bounded domains must, IIRC) have minima and maxima. This seems to be Elo's implicit assumption in the first paragraph, that we were just talking about resources which are available in quantities between 0% and 100%.