Vaniver comments on The Allais Paradox - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vaniver 18 April 2012 01:28:34AM 2 points [-]

That makes the two cases, stated as they are, different. In game 1 the utility of U1($0) has negative value: a sense of guilt (or shame) over having made the bad choice, which doesn't seem possible in game 2 (because game 2 is stated in terms of abstract probabilities, see below).

If you could choose whether or not to have this guilt, would you choose to have it? Does it make you better off?