DanielVarga comments on Example of poor decision making under pressure (from game show) - Less Wrong

7 Post author: Wilka 10 December 2011 03:39PM

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Comment author: DanielVarga 11 December 2011 11:59:22PM 1 point [-]

You start with zero wealth. The quiz show host "gives" you a million pounds to play with, but you can only take home the money left after the last round. The intermediary levels of imaginary wealth do not affect the calculation.

Comment author: [deleted] 12 December 2011 02:03:16AM 0 points [-]

Oh, I see, I was completely misunderstanding the problem.