atucker comments on Examples of Rationality Techniques adopted by the Masses - Less Wrong

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Comment author: chrt 07 June 2014 04:53:21PM *  4 points [-]

Expected value (it tells you not to play slot machines)

Casinos are apparently still making money, so I question the extent to which this has been adopted by the Masses.

Comment author: atucker 07 June 2014 05:36:57PM 4 points [-]

That just means that the sanity waterline isn't high enough that casinos have no customers -- it could be the case that there used to be lots of people who went to casinos, and the waterline has been rising, and now there are fewer people who do.