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50 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 31 January 2008 07:36PM

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Comment author: potato 23 April 2012 03:49:11AM 0 points [-]

Great, I'll work on that. That's exactly what I should ask my self. And if I find that the rule of do that with highest expected utility fails on the smoking lesion problem, I'll ask why I want to go with the dominant strategy (as I predict I will).

The only reason that I have to trust expected utility particularly is that I have a geometric metaphor, which forces me to believe the rule, if I believe certain basic things about utility.