Okay, the utility-function-inverting thing does not sound like a thing that typically happens to humans walking around, but SHIT Golarian has issues. How do you even manage to negotiate to a multi-agent-optimal boundary with the god of mutilation, misery, and torture? Would it accept nonsentient things to torture if the nonsentient things were configured carefully enough to match its utility function, or is the utility function too precisely inverted to accept that? Does it have any interests in common with the unflipped gods besides the continued existence of the world despite Rovagug...
Let's put this book back for now, and go look at global politics.