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Comment author: Oscar_Cunningham 26 January 2014 11:48:49AM 3 points [-]

A, which grants -100 utilons with 99.9% chance and +10000 utilons with 0.1%

A has an expected utility of +900.1 utilons

Um, A actually has a utility of -89.9.

That explains why it seems less appealing!

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