Two utilities? (was Re: Bound unhappiness below)

From: Tim Freeman (tim@fungible.com)
Date: Wed May 07 2008 - 07:12:13 MDT

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From: "Stuart Armstrong" <dragondreaming@googlemail.com>
>You own utility and the utility you have regarding others are quite
>different things.

I make one decision about what to do, so I need to assign one score
the different alternatives if I'm going to choose the best. So what's
the point of having two quite different utilities?

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