PhilGoetz comments on Individual Rationality Is a Matter of Life and Death - Less Wrong

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 21 March 2009 08:41:34PM *  1 point [-]

As you said, he wrote:

it makes more sense ...

Hence, it is about balance.

EDIT: I'm taking some inferential steps here.

  • When reasonable people say A is more valuable than B, they don't usually mean that you should buy N of A and 0 of B.

  • Robin is a reasonable person.