Suppose everyone had a utility function and we just added the utility functions, ignoring scaling. What allegedly goes wrong with this? And why do I care about it?
I am perplexed. Why are you asking this question? Isn’t this stuff you learned about then theorized about while you were still a fetus? Is it meant rhetorically? As an exercise?
I am perplexed. Why are you asking this question? Isn’t this stuff you learned about then theorized about while you were still a fetus? Is it meant rhetorically? As an exercise?
It’s just the standard first question I ask for any theorem in this class. See my reply to Nisan below about some theorems by Stuart Armstrong.