Qiaochu_Yuan comments on Applying utility functions to humans considered harmful - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 29 November 2012 01:50:01AM 6 points [-]

When I read the beginning of this post I asked myself, "if people don't have utility functions, why haven't LWers gotten rich by constructing Dutch books against people?"

I answered myself, "in practice, most people will probably ignore clever-looking bets because they'll suspect that they're being tricked. One way to avoid Dutch books is to avoid bets in general."