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RichardKennaway comments on Zeckhauser's roulette - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 21 January 2012 10:01:53PM 0 points [-]

I understand the argument, but it absolutely depends on your estate being of no value when you're dead. Ok, that's simply one of the rules given in the problem, but in reality, people generally care very much about the posthumous disposal of their assets. The gameshow version makes the problem much clearer, because one can very easily imagine a gameshow run exactly according to those rules.

But then, by making it much clearer, the paradox is reduced: it is easy to understand the equality of the two cases, even if one's first guess was wrong.