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Comment author: tog 11 April 2015 04:20:40PM 0 points [-]

This is a good solution when marginal money has roughly equal utility to Alice and Bob, but suffers otherwise.

Comment author: Good_Burning_Plastic 12 April 2015 08:09:26AM *  0 points [-]

<nitpick>The misophonic neighbour in the OP is unnamed; Bob is Alice's friend acting as a kind of sort of mediator.</nitpick>

Similar situations were discussed here:
http://lesswrong.com/lw/jje/decision_auctions_aka_how_to_fairly_assign_chores/afc5