Solvent comments on Is risk aversion really irrational ? - Less Wrong

41 Post author: kilobug 31 January 2012 08:34PM

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Comment author: orthonormal 01 February 2012 03:21:49AM 5 points [-]

he's risking his absolute nightmare, his equivalent of the worst pain possible : no more paperclips, not even a single tiny one

You ruin the thought experiment by writing as if the difference between 0 and 1 paperclips is much worse than the difference between 1 and 4, in violation of the utility function you declared.

Comment author: Solvent 01 February 2012 11:22:16AM 1 point [-]

Yeah, the article would be far better if that were fixed. Utility functions are identical if you add any constant to them, or any positive multiplier.