Perplexed comments on The Irrationality Game - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: Perplexed 03 October 2010 08:01:43PM 1 point [-]

Downvoted for agreement. This might make a good topic for a top-level posting.

Adding or averaging utilities of different people seems like adding apples and oranges to me. But be aware that at least one top-flight economist might disagree. John Harsanyi in this classic pdf.pdf).

Comment author: wnoise 03 October 2010 08:32:54PM *  1 point [-]

I think you mean: http://darp.lse.ac.uk/papersdb/Harsanyi_(JPolE_55).pdf

The markdown eats parentheses in an URL -- you have to escape it with a backslash: \).

Comment author: Vladimir_M 03 October 2010 08:34:44PM *  0 points [-]

The link is broken -- I assume you mean this paper? (URLs with parentheses get messed up due to the odd markup syntax here.)