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CronoDAS comments on The Mere Cable Channel Addition Paradox - Less Wrong Discussion

64 Post author: Ghatanathoah 26 July 2012 07:20AM

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Comment author: Adele_L 26 July 2012 02:42:05PM 1 point [-]

So once your misery goes below one unit, you get insane gains in utility for small reductions in misery?

Comment author: CronoDAS 29 July 2012 12:06:44AM *  0 points [-]

I don't think my actual utility in real life follows that equation, but it's an example that has properties that make the example work. (Another analogy would be that the utility of being dead comes out to the square root of minus one, which can't be directly compared with real numbers.)