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Elements of Control: An Introduction to Cybernetics with Nick

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Are You Trying to Maximize Your Utility?

In Foucault's lectures on the birth of biopolitics, he describes how Hume and Adam Smith have this sort of thought experiment. And eventually it traces back to an individual with a matrix of beliefs and desires that are constituted. This is the individual with who can operate to maximize their utility based on their beliefs and desires. We see this picked up again in 20th century philosophy with fashion choice theory for example.

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