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Lumifer comments on An investment analogy for Pascal's Mugging - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 12 December 2014 03:38:30PM 2 points [-]

Yep, I was wrong. Now I need to figure out why I thought I was right..

Comment author: IlyaShpitser 12 December 2014 04:04:59PM *  1 point [-]

May have gotten confused because log is monotonically increasing e.g. log likelihood maximized at the same spot as likelihood. So log E(X) is maximized at the same spot as E(X). But log and E do not commute (Jensen's inequality is not called Jensen's equality, after all).

Comment author: Lumifer 12 December 2014 04:16:29PM 0 points [-]

Was probably part of it -- I think the internal cheering for the wrong position included the words "But log likelihood!" :-/