I was going edit-to-add the following to my rather terse comment above:
These sorts of preference orderings aren’t restricted to “pure” preferences such as “ceteris paribus I prefer Italian food to Mexican”—they apply also to preferences over multivariate states like in the example above, where the variables are {food type, company at dinner}.
But you’ve pre-empted it with this comment. Still, I liked it enough that I wanted an excuse to post it.
I was going edit-to-add the following to my rather terse comment above:
But you’ve pre-empted it with this comment. Still, I liked it enough that I wanted an excuse to post it.
So you preferred posting it to not posting it, and you preferred having an excuse to do so to not having an excuse to do so? ;)
Exactly!