Eugine_Nier comments on Don't Build Fallout Shelters - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 08 January 2013 09:38:19PM *  2 points [-]

The same discount factor applies to helping yourself in probability branches where you experience disasters, at the expense of ones where you don't.