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gjm comments on Iterated Gambles and Expected Utility Theory - Less Wrong Discussion

1 Post author: Sable 25 May 2016 09:29PM

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Comment author: gjm 06 June 2016 03:02:35PM -1 points [-]

I'm pretty sure I would also take that bet.

I don't think I'd take an equivalent bet now, though. Compared with the hypothetical twentysomething earning $60k/year I'm older, hence less time to recover if I get unlucky, and richer, hence gaining $10M is a smaller improvement, and I have a family who would suffer if transported with me into the parallel world and whom I would miss if they weren't.