pnrjulius comments on But There's Still A Chance, Right? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: pnrjulius 03 April 2012 03:01:50AM 0 points [-]

This is deep wisdom. It also has a lot of resonance with the issue of risk, and what sorts of risks it is rational to take.

(And don't tell me "expected utility", because either the utility is what you'd straightforwardly expect---10000 people = 1 person * 10000---and you run into all sorts of weird conclusions, or else you do what von Neumann and Morgenstern did and redefine "utility" to mean "whatever it is you use to choose". Great; now what do I use to choose?)