notsonewuser comments on Lotteries: A Waste of Hope - Less Wrong
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As I see it, Eliezer is not applying the term "bias" to the value of lotteries, rather, to people's own evaluations of how likely they are to win. These evaluations are scope insensitive, as is the first sentence of your comment, as Eliezer points out in the follow-up post.
It is a separate question whether it is good that people are scope insensitive, or that people play the lottery. Eliezer says no: