prase comments on 5 Axioms of Decision Making - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 02 December 2011 04:46:00PM 0 points [-]

I'm pretty sure that a Dutch Book is only a Dutch Book if it's pure arbitrage- that is, you beat someone using only the odds they publish. If you know more than someone else and win a bet against them, that seems different.

Yes. Crudely speaking they have to be stupid, not just ignorant!

Comment author: prase 02 December 2011 05:04:03PM 0 points [-]

Not being able to decide upon the Collatz conjecture is stupidity, not ignorance. A very widespread sort of stupidy, but still.

Comment author: wedrifid 02 December 2011 05:45:23PM *  0 points [-]

Grandparent is self contained and entirely Collatz-independent.

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