Open Technology Institute

The wishes or targets are represented by their value or utility for the decision maker, and the decision maker’s drawback is to choose an motion that realizes a state of affairs that, ideally, has maximal value or utility among all of the situations that could possibly be realized. If there’s uncertainty concerning he situations that shall be realized by a selected action, then the issue is conceived as aiming for maximal expectedvalue or utility. Now the instrumental perspective on technology implies that the value that’s at concern within the design process viewed as a means of rational decision making just …