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So you don't have a quantitative measure of utility of which you can precisely determine a "half", you have a vague idea of "value" on which you want to place a
by andrewflnr 9mo ago
So you don't have a quantitative measure of utility of which you can precisely determine a "half", you have a vague idea of "value" on which you want to place a veneer of quantitative analysis that will last exactly until someone calls you on it. That's not specific.
- ActorNightly 9mo agoLets say utility is time that you can spend driving the car versus it sitting still, multiplied by amount of weight you can carry, divided by cost of vehicle.
- andrewflnr 9mo agoLet's say that every unit of time spent driving a vehicle is of equal utility for every person, and that the utility scales linearly with the absolute length of a given stretch of driving or time between. Let's say everyone uses their car to go basically the same distances to the same kinds of places carrying the same cargo and passengers, with basically the same costs for needing an alternative. Let's also say that cows are frictonless spheres in a vacuum. Or we could just not pretend that "utility" is a concept that can be applied uniformly across all car-shaper objects.