alex_zag_al comments on Willing gamblers, spherical cows, and AIs - Less Wrong

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Comment author: alex_zag_al 23 February 2016 09:56:36PM 0 points [-]

I don't know about the role of this assumption in AI, which is what you seem to care most about. But I think I can answer about its role in philosophy.

One thing I want from epistemology is a model of ideally rational reasoning, under uncertainty. One way to eliminate a lot of candidates for such a model is to show that they make some kind of obvious mistake. In this case, the mistake is judging something as a good bet when really it is guaranteed to lose money.