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Vaniver 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: Lumifer 31 May 2016 02:43:43PM 1 point [-]

Yes and my question was how does he know? If he never had that amount of money available to him, his guesstimate of how much utility he will be able to gain from it is subject to doubt. People do change, especially when their circumstances change.

Comment author: Good_Burning_Plastic 07 June 2016 07:02:40AM 0 points [-]

If you did realize you two were talking specifically about HungryHobo rather than/as well as about people in general, you might want to edit your comments to make it clearer.