Academian comments on VNM expected utility theory: uses, abuses, and interpretation - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Academian 18 April 2010 01:05:31AM *  0 points [-]

The difference is that in my version, utility is assigned to states of a finite universe.

That's true. You prefer to assign infinitely many utilities to infinitely many states of possible finite universes, and I allow assigning one utility to one state of a possibly infinite universe.

I think the reasons for favoring each case are probably clear to us both, so now I vote for not generating further infinities of comments in the recent comments feed :)