Technologos comments on Dissenting Views - Less Wrong

19 Post author: byrnema 26 May 2009 06:55PM

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Comment author: linkhyrule5 28 August 2013 07:14:34AM 0 points [-]

Question - is there a uniqueness proof of VNM optimality in this regard?

Comment author: Technologos 20 June 2015 12:53:41PM 0 points [-]

VNM utility is a necessary consequence of its axioms but doesn't entail a unique utility function; as such, the ability to prevent Dutch Books is derived more from VNM's assumption of a fixed total ordering of outcomes than anything.