wnoise comments on Normal Cryonics - Less Wrong

58 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 19 January 2010 07:08PM

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Comment author: wnoise 02 February 2010 12:20:38AM 0 points [-]

Why do you think this restricts to positive affine transformations, rather than any strictly monotonic transformation?

Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 02 February 2010 12:23:54AM 3 points [-]

Other monotonic transformations don't preserve preferences over gambles.

Comment author: wnoise 02 February 2010 12:45:21AM 0 points [-]

Ah, right, that's what I was missing. Thanks.

Comment author: Jordan 02 February 2010 12:29:26AM 0 points [-]

A strictly monotonic transformation will preserve your preference ordering of states but not your preference ordering for actions to achieve those states. That is, only affine transformations preserve the ordering of expected values of different actions.