Yes, real human preference is routinely intransitive. That’s a topic perhaps worth its own discussion.
The parent post is still relevant, though. Inasmuch as utilitarian calculations are a useful approximation to human decisionmaking, it’s worth reminding people here that utilities don’t have a natural magnitude scale and that there’s no natural way to compare them across agents.
Yes, real human preference is routinely intransitive. That’s a topic perhaps worth its own discussion.
The parent post is still relevant, though. Inasmuch as utilitarian calculations are a useful approximation to human decisionmaking, it’s worth reminding people here that utilities don’t have a natural magnitude scale and that there’s no natural way to compare them across agents.