jsalvatier comments on The Moral Status of Independent Identical Copies - Less Wrong

32 Post author: Wei_Dai 30 November 2009 11:41PM

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Comment author: jsalvatier 01 December 2009 10:38:42PM 2 points [-]

Remember that risk aversion does not exist in a value-vacuum. In normal circumstances you are risk averse in money because your first $100 is more valuable than your last $100. You have to solve the problem that wei_dai brought up in order to explain why you would be risk averse in #'s of simulations running.