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

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Comment author: DanielVarga 13 December 2011 05:29:32PM 0 points [-]

Looking at some much more advanced related papers, I am now sure that it is well known. But I'd still love to see some reference, be it a paper or a textbook. Could you please help me with this?

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 13 December 2011 09:10:48PM 0 points [-]

Maybe Bernoulli's 1738 paper on the St Petersburg paradox, where he suggested that utility should be the log of wealth.

Comment author: DanielVarga 14 December 2011 12:05:18AM 0 points [-]

Really? That's cool. How about the slightly more general version that I stated down-thread? I hope at least that one would have been news to Bernoulli, entropy hadn't been invented yet.