To say "utility comes from... genes" is to attempt to ground economics in biology. But economics is explicitly *not* grounded on biology -- which is the whole point of this Trivers' talk. https://twitter.com/UtilaTheEcon/status/1121181648085667840 …
Perhaps, but I don't see the relevance. It's supposed to be a descriptive theory of intentional action (human or otherwise).
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It's quite fine as a theory by itself. The problem is that the entire "raison d'etre" of that theory is to define a measure that could be maximized.
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That's not how it gets used now.
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