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Comment author: Manfred 31 August 2012 04:53:05AM 0 points [-]

Why?

The thing I am asserting without bothering to back it up is called the expected utility hypothesis.

millionth digit of pi

Fair enough. I believe you get the point though.

Comment author: DanielLC 31 August 2012 05:21:01AM 0 points [-]

The thing I am asserting without bothering to back it up is called the expected utility hypothesis.

It's equivalent to having different priors and doing it linearly (although you might have to involve infinitesimal probabilities to get it to work exactly right). That does raise the question of whether those things really can be considered separate.