Yes, you can still sort of do utility maximisation approximately with heuristics …and you can only do sort of utility sort of maximisation approximately with heuristics.
The point isn’t to make a string of words come out as true by diluting the meanings of the terms...the point is that the claim needs to be true in the relevant sense. If this half-baked sort-of utility sort-of-maximisation isn’t the scary kind of fanatical utility maximisation, nothing has been achieved.
Yes, you can still sort of do utility maximisation approximately with heuristics …and you can only do sort of utility sort of maximisation approximately with heuristics.
The point isn’t to make a string of words come out as true by diluting the meanings of the terms...the point is that the claim needs to be true in the relevant sense. If this half-baked sort-of utility sort-of-maximisation isn’t the scary kind of fanatical utility maximisation, nothing has been achieved.