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gjm comments on Stupid Questions May 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

10 Post author: Gondolinian 01 May 2015 05:28PM

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Comment author: gjm 02 May 2015 07:59:42PM 4 points [-]

There is a demonstration of exactly this in Eliezer's post from 2008 about the Allais paradox.

(Eliezer modified the numbers a bit, compared with other statements of the Allais paradox that I've seen. I don't think this makes a substantial difference to what's going on.)