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There are tons of ways humans violate utility theory, and economists have spent a lot of time studying them.
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But despite that, for the right questions, utility theory still works pretty well.
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It's a model with a serious grounding problem for the reason I just mentioned.
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*shrug* I could trot out the old box quote
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That's exactly the argument Trivers is making. All of evolutionary theory is grounded in survival of replicators. Linguistics on phonemes & syntax. There's even granularity in cultural evolution. Utility is merely a conceptual scaffold, not an undisputed fact about the world.
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