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    The fugitive cares more strongly about surviving than abo... — Carmelics
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    Supports→The pursuer-fugitive game cannot be solved purely on the basis of ordinal utility functions when preferences are non-zero-sum

    The fugitive cares more strongly about surviving than about the manner of death

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    We were able to solve this game straightforwardly because we set the utility functions in such a way as to make it zero-sum, or strictly competitive. That is, every gain in expected utility by one player represents a precisely symmetrical loss by the other. However, this condition may often not hold. Suppose now that the utility functions are more complicated. The pursuer most prefers an outcome in which she shoots the fugitive and so claims credit for his apprehension to one in which he dies of

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