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20 Post author: lukeprog 26 November 2011 08:05AM

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 08 December 2011 04:24:35PM 0 points [-]

Agreed: if I assume that there's a hard upper limit being externally imposed on those answers (e.g., that I only have $80, $78, and $88 to spend in the first place, and that even the least valuable of the three choices is worth more to me than everything I have to spend) then those answers don't demonstrate interesting scope insensitivity.

There's nothing wrong with that conclusion, given those assumptions.