Yep, that was the inspiration—a ‘soft’ lexicographic preference. We very often use lexicographic preferences in software because they have neat property—you can always insert a value between other two. It is also easy to discard model of lexicographic preferences due to unnatural ‘strictness’ of the preference.
This seems similar to lexicographic preferences. Also search for hyperreal or surreal utility functions on LW, there have been several discussions.
Yep, that was the inspiration—a ‘soft’ lexicographic preference. We very often use lexicographic preferences in software because they have neat property—you can always insert a value between other two. It is also easy to discard model of lexicographic preferences due to unnatural ‘strictness’ of the preference.