No you’re right it doesn’t nail it down precisely (the satisfaction of needs or wants).
I do believe, however, that it more precisely nails it down than the wiki on here.
Or on second thoughts maybe not because we again come back to conflicting utilities: a suicidal might value being killed as higher utility than someone who is sitting on death row and doesn’t want to die.
And I was using the term utility from economics since it’s the only place I’ve heard where they use “utility function” so I naturally assumed that’s what you were talking about since even if we disagree around the edges the meanings still fit the context for the purposes of this discussion.
No you’re right it doesn’t nail it down precisely (the satisfaction of needs or wants).
I do believe, however, that it more precisely nails it down than the wiki on here.
Or on second thoughts maybe not because we again come back to conflicting utilities: a suicidal might value being killed as higher utility than someone who is sitting on death row and doesn’t want to die.
And I was using the term utility from economics since it’s the only place I’ve heard where they use “utility function” so I naturally assumed that’s what you were talking about since even if we disagree around the edges the meanings still fit the context for the purposes of this discussion.