Yvain comments on Is Rationality Maximization of Expected Value? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Yvain 23 September 2010 05:43:38PM 10 points [-]

It's not all. Pramipexole and other dopamine agonist medications can cause compulsive gambling in previous non-gamblers as a side effect. That makes me think that the thrill of gambling has something to do with the dopamine system and the design of the human risk/reward system, and that compulsive gambling probably has some kind of organic cause that you couldn't find in the pure mathematics of expected utility.