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It is a dumb financial decision. You could find a third party you could agree with to give you 20mil now for whatever the coin toss brings you.
by lostmsu 4y ago
It is a dumb financial decision. You could find a third party you could agree with to give you 20mil now for whatever the coin toss brings you.
- cm2012 4y agoThat's not the point of this hypothetical question though. It's like saying you decide to break the train tracks in the trolley problem.
- lostmsu 4y agoThe trolley problem implies urgency of action. This one does not seem to. In practice most financial decisions take long time to make.
- the__alchemist 4y agoThe comment I'm replying to is showing a shade of grey, but this is a valid perspective, and reminds me of how Feynman attacked poorly worded, vague, or academic questions. I disagree that this reasoning is tangential to the question; it's an ill-defined question, and this comment's take pokes at that in the right place.