thomblake comments on Raising the forecasting waterline (part 1) - LessWrong
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It depends on whether you're using probabilities epistemically or instrumentally. Changing the probability of A from 90% to 95% doesn't affect your expected utility any more than changing it from 50% to 55%.
Yeah, that's why I said "For most purposes".