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FAWS comments on Zeckhauser's roulette - Less Wrong Discussion

11 Post author: cousin_it 19 January 2012 07:22PM

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Comment author: FAWS 21 January 2012 03:57:36AM *  2 points [-]

Obviously correct under the deeply weird assumptions made. In both times the probability of survival is increased by 50% and the value of your money is proportional to your base survival chance, so both sides of the equation are changed by the same factor.