Alicorn comments on Misleading the witness - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Alicorn 11 August 2009 04:00:39PM 10 points [-]

He does not have (even in this hypothetical situation) a million bucks. Hypothetically, he's being offered a 15% chance of winning a million bucks.

Incidentally, in a staggering display of risk aversion, I asked a friend how much she'd pay for a 15% chance of a million dollars and she said maybe twenty bucks because those did not seem like "very good odds" to her. -.-