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Nisan comments on On not diversifying charity - Less Wrong Discussion

1 Post author: DanielLC 14 March 2014 05:14AM

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Comment author: Nisan 15 March 2014 06:29:20PM 0 points [-]

A parliament that can make indefinitely binding contracts turns into a VNM-rational agent. But a parliament that can't make binding contracts might always diversify.

Comment author: Squark 22 March 2014 08:58:32PM 0 points [-]

If the parliament consists of UDT agents then effectively it can make binding contracts.