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Ep 130: Steven Pinker’s ”Rationality” Ch 6 ”Risk and Reward” (Rational Choice & Expected Utility). Analysis.

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The Probability Calculus Is Not Probablistic

The only way we can have an object obey the probability calculus is to have a computer simulation of something like a dice or a ruleete well. But that's not the real world. That's an alternative universe, obeying alternative physical laws, which are the probability calculus. In our real physical world, even things like casinos do not obey the probability calculators at all.

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