What's in your utility function?
Today's Quote of Day on Google's personalized homepage is from the creators of South Park.
"Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable." -Trey Parker and Matt Stone
He sounds a bit like economist, eh? It is interesting to note that Matt Stone's father, Gerald Stone is an economist and U of Kentucky graduate students (such as Hypothetical Bias creator, Whitehead) from the mid to late 80s know him from the principles text, Byrns and Stone. The Parker/Stone quote differs greatly from altruistic behavior that is consistent with optimizing behavior & the business philosophy of the founder of the company Patagonia, Yvon Chouinard but that is whole another post.
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