Eugine_Nier comments on The Irrationality Game - Less Wrong

38 Post author: Will_Newsome 03 October 2010 02:43AM

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 03 October 2010 05:01:36AM 1 point [-]

Can you give an example of a non-risk-neutral utility function that can't be converted a standard utility function by rescaling.

Bonus points if it doesn't make you into a money pump.

Comment author: Alicorn 03 October 2010 02:15:31PM 0 points [-]

No, because I don't have a good handle on what magic can and cannot be done with math; when I have tried to do this in the past, it looks like this.

Me: But thus and so and thresholds and ambivalence without indifference and stuff.

Mathemagician: POOF! Look, this thing you don't understand satisfies your every need.