lessdazed comments on Why We Can't Take Expected Value Estimates Literally (Even When They're Unbiased) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: lessdazed 20 August 2011 11:18:45AM 2 points [-]

Imagine what the global financial sector would look like if it was funded to the tune of $600,000/year. You would probably think it wasn't worth scaling up Earth's financial sector.

And one might even be right about that.

A better analogy might be if regulation of the global financial sector were funded at 600k/yr.