Fhyve comments on VNM agents and lotteries involving an infinite number of possible outcomes - Less Wrong

9 Post author: AlexMennen 21 February 2013 09:58PM

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Comment author: Fhyve 23 February 2013 09:24:20PM *  1 point [-]

Why do we even need to deal with outcomes in the first place? For any outcome O, it is equivalent to the lottery L = pO where p = 1.

Also, how do you do LaTeX here?

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 24 February 2013 12:26:33AM 2 points [-]

Also, how do you do LaTeX here?

Useful links for that here and here.

Comment author: AlexMennen 24 February 2013 01:09:15AM *  1 point [-]

You don't need to talk about outcomes, but I like to talk in terms of outcomes anyway because it makes it easier for me to interpret the lotteries. If you would rather not talk about outcomes, it shouldn't be too hard to mentally translate everything in the post in terms of lotteries.