Alicorn comments on Attention Lurkers: Please say hi - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Alicorn 23 April 2010 05:52:05PM 6 points [-]

The companies that make many billions of dollars are not necessarily the ones that maximize expected utility; they're the ones that get immense payoffs even if they had to take absurd risks to manage it. Many companies fail for taking similar risks.