wnoise comments on Solve Psy-Kosh's non-anthropic problem - Less Wrong

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Comment author: James_Ernest 21 July 2013 01:48:25AM 2 points [-]

Shouldn't the expected value be $1000 (10p)*(1-p^10) or $1000 (10p - 10p^11) ? (p now maximised at 0.7868... giving EV $7.15K)

Comment author: wnoise 24 July 2013 04:19:48AM 0 points [-]

That does look right.

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