hairyfigment comments on Knightian Uncertainty and Ambiguity Aversion: Motivation - LessWrong

20 Post author: So8res 21 July 2014 08:32PM

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Comment author: hairyfigment 22 July 2014 06:52:53PM 3 points [-]

You don't mention what seems like the most important problem with a bet on the unbalanced game: you'll look like a fool if you guess wrong. This could have far-reaching monetary consequences in real finance, and status consequences in general.

Comment author: GuySrinivasan 23 July 2014 07:27:42PM 1 point [-]

This is very important. Feeling like there are status consequences has an effect on decision making in humans regardless of whether there are actual status consequences.