lymen comments on Lotteries: A Waste of Hope - Less Wrong

28 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 13 April 2007 05:36AM

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Comment author: TobyBartels 16 January 2011 02:21:59AM 0 points [-]

This is rational if utility vs money is concave, which it can easily be for small amounts of money. Tim Tyler touched on that above.

But I'm one who would clearly prefer torture to dust specks, so don't trust me.

Comment author: lymen 16 January 2011 09:39:16PM 1 point [-]

Ooh, right, I didn't see that post, thanks!