cousin_it comments on True numbers and fake numbers - Less Wrong

19 Post author: cousin_it 06 February 2014 12:29PM

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Comment author: cousin_it 07 February 2014 05:04:42PM 1 point [-]

In what sense are preferences over lotteries less meaningful than preferences over pure outcomes?

Comment author: SaidAchmiz 07 February 2014 09:10:43PM 1 point [-]

I don't think you can determine preferences over outcomes from preferences over lotteries; or if you can, then it's nowhere near as straightforward as multiplying by probabilities, etc. To put it another way, I don't think preferences over lotteries represent preferences over outcomes in any meaningful way.