Happiness and utility are not the same thing. It’s perfectly legitimate to say that you would feel better in situation A than you would in situation B, but would still prefer that situation B occurs, and this would mean that you assign higher utility to situation B.
Happiness and utility are not the same thing. It’s perfectly legitimate to say that you would feel better in situation A than you would in situation B, but would still prefer that situation B occurs, and this would mean that you assign higher utility to situation B.
This. If you find yourself considering trying to change your utility function, then something has gone badly wrong.