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Comment author: ericyu3 09 August 2014 11:45:46PM 0 points [-]

Your utility=income suggestion doesn't work as such a canonical method in humans because utility isn't proportional to income.

I just meant that picking a value of u0 is equivalent to picking a value of income ("y0") such that u(y0)=u0.

Comment author: AlexMennen 10 August 2014 06:22:48AM *  1 point [-]

Which is in turn equivalent to picking a value of income y_0 such that u(y_0)=0 for total utilitarianism.

(btw, to get an _ instead of italics, put a \ in front of it.)

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