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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 08 December 2011 07:16:40PM 2 points [-]

There's no need to renormalise: any outcome on the blue line is a probabilistic mixture between the (0,1) and (0.95,0.95) choices (to use the genuine utilities of these outcomes). This is better for y than the pure (0.95,0.95) option.

Comment author: HonoreDB 08 December 2011 07:58:35PM 1 point [-]

Oh, I see. That's why the straight lines are significant: they show that no mixture involving the (.6,.6) point is optimal. Thanks for explaining.