thomblake comments on Focus Your Uncertainty - Less Wrong

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Comment author: royf 31 May 2012 05:12:04PM * 4 points [-]

This solution is the Kelly strategy. It isn't generally optimal, but this makes it optimal in this case:

if some particular outcome occurs, then your utility function is logarithmic in time spent preparing the excuse

Comment author: thomblake 31 May 2012 05:59:47PM 1 point [-]

Nice - I'm not sure if I've encountered that strategy before.