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CronoDAS comments on The Dice Room, Human Extinction, and Consistency of Bayesian Probability Theory - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: CronoDAS 01 August 2015 07:00:48AM 1 point [-]

I'm reminded of a Bayesian solution to the "two envelopes problem" - if you conclude that you should always switch, you're implicitly assuming that the expected value of each envelope is infinite.