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drethelin 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: drethelin 16 June 2014 09:06:14PM 4 points [-]

Marginal utility per piece quickly hits diminishing returns

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 18 June 2014 02:05:16AM 0 points [-]

Yes, obviously. I was pointing out that initial regime. I also pointed out the crossover point - when you don't have a purpose for the next piece.