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by ajuc 1009 days ago
Would you agree there's a way to quantify preferences for people so you have:

Preference(person, one_thing, other_thing) and it returns -1, 0 or 1 depending on what that person prefers?

You can do math on this and try to optimize it, it's just more complicated than if utility was cardinal and objective.