faul_sname comments on What's the Value of Information? - Less Wrong

10 Post author: johnlawrenceaspden 29 August 2012 04:20PM

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Comment author: faul_sname 29 August 2012 11:37:33PM 1 point [-]

You're right. This seems like an interesting exercise in programming, actually: build a tool that tells you the VOI of a certain number of guesses. I know 0-3 have an EV of 0, but when I try to plug in 4, I realize why a recursive function might have been a bad idea.