I’m not planning to compare utility in the real world. I’d only want the mechanism to maximise the sum in the theoretical model (and we can normalise everyones functions to be between 0 and 1 in the model, so one person doesn’t dominate).
If the model didn’t show the total being maximised, but only the total of a subset of the population (those in charge) then it wouldn’t be a good mechanism and we should look for better.
Humans don’t have utility functions, so this model of politics is an approximation at best. So it wouldn’t be a completely accurate simulation and experimentation would also be needed to see if any proposed mechanism was compatible with the other facets of human psychology that make us different from utility maximisers.
So, what method of making interpersonal comparisons of utility do you have in mind?
I’m not planning to compare utility in the real world. I’d only want the mechanism to maximise the sum in the theoretical model (and we can normalise everyones functions to be between 0 and 1 in the model, so one person doesn’t dominate).
If the model didn’t show the total being maximised, but only the total of a subset of the population (those in charge) then it wouldn’t be a good mechanism and we should look for better.
Humans don’t have utility functions, so this model of politics is an approximation at best. So it wouldn’t be a completely accurate simulation and experimentation would also be needed to see if any proposed mechanism was compatible with the other facets of human psychology that make us different from utility maximisers.