On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 14:17 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The issue of how to sum utility over an entire society is also raised. How > do you relate > one point of utility between two people.
I think it's arbitrary. Utility functions are an abstraction for describing agents; if two agents would make the same decision in all situations, then it makes sense to say that they have the same utility function. Rescaling a utility function has no effect on the decisions which would be made by an agent which implements that utility function, so it's really the same utility function. ---- election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
