pengvado comments on Bayesian Adjustment Does Not Defeat Existential Risk Charity - Less Wrong

43 Post author: steven0461 17 March 2013 08:50AM

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Comment author: pengvado 19 March 2013 01:20:42AM *  0 points [-]

"50:4" in the post refers to "P(V=1|A=100)*1 : P(V=100|A=100)*100", not "EV(A=1) : EV(A=100)". EV(A=1) is irrelevant, since we know that A is in fact 100.

Comment author: pinyaka 19 March 2013 01:52:32AM 0 points [-]

I think this confused me:

So the ratio of the expected value contributions changes from 50:1 to 50:4.

I see that. Thanks.