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It's not obvious to me that Qiaochu would endorse utility functions as a standard for "ideal rationality". I, for one, do not.
Even if you don't think it's the ideal, utility based decision theory it does give us insights that I don't think you can naturally pick up from anywhere else that we've discovered yet.