Alicorn comments on Rooting Hard for Overpriced M&Ms - Less Wrong

4 Post author: David_J_Balan 28 November 2009 07:10PM

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Comment author: Alicorn 28 November 2009 10:13:19PM 0 points [-]

How about this, then: if I don't have any ones in my purse, this is because I have spent them on things already (since in the past, my purse has contained singles, and that is the typical method by which they depart). Assuming I really want the M&Ms, I might resent the fact that I made other spending choices in the past that caused the lack of ones. Finding the one is news that I did not make (all of) those resented choices.

Comment author: David_J_Balan 30 November 2009 01:24:08AM 0 points [-]

It seems to me that the problem is self-contained, and doesn't depend on past purchases. Am I missing something?