I think there’s a terminological mismatch here. Dagon was asking about a “utility function” as specifically being something satisfying the VNM axioms. But I think you’re using it (in this comment and the one Dagon was replying to) synonymous with the more general concept of an “optimization function”, i.e. a function returning some output that somehow gets optimized for?
I think there’s a terminological mismatch here. Dagon was asking about a “utility function” as specifically being something satisfying the VNM axioms. But I think you’re using it (in this comment and the one Dagon was replying to) synonymous with the more general concept of an “optimization function”, i.e. a function returning some output that somehow gets optimized for?