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HonoreDB comments on Utility is unintuitive - Less Wrong Discussion

-5 Post author: jsteinhardt 09 December 2010 05:39AM

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Comment author: HonoreDB 09 December 2010 07:01:47AM 1 point [-]

Expected utility is expected (subjective) value plus risk aversion, right? Do you have in mind a "desirable distribution over outcomes" that can't be expressed that way?