Will_Sawin comments on Dutch Books and Decision Theory: An Introduction to a Long Conversation - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Will_Sawin 21 December 2010 07:18:39PM 1 point [-]

I would say that the reason for your intuition that uncertainty => gaps (which seems separate from risk-aversion-induced gaps) is that the person on the other end of the bet may have information you don't, and so them offering to bet you counts as Bayesian evidence that the side they're betting on is correct.

However, e.g., a simple computer program can commit to not knowing anything about the world, and solve this problem.