lukeprog comments on Why We Can't Take Expected Value Estimates Literally (Even When They're Unbiased) - Less Wrong
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Minor tweaks suggested...
There are some formatting issues. For example there is an extra space below the heading 'The approach we oppose: "explicit expected-value" (EEV) decisionmaking' instead of above it, and the heading 'Informal objections to EEV decisionmaking' is just blended into the middle of a paragraph, along with the first sentence below it. The heading 'Approaches to Bayesian adjustment that I oppose' is formatted differently than the others are.
Use 'a' instead of 'an' here:
Add 'and' before '(b)' here:
You may want to add 'marginal' before 'value' here; I'm not sure that EEV proponents neglect the issue of marginal value:
In this paragraph, you may want to link to this video as an example:
For example, at 7:15 in the video, Anna says:
She goes on to say:
Anna then applies this reasoning to Singularity scenarios, mentions GiveWell, and more.