Do you think you can expand on this, perhaps in a top-level post? I feel somewhat sympathetic towards what you said, but would like to understand your position better to see if I really agree with it or not.
As far as “this site has adopted expected utility as a prescriptive theory”, that’s hardly surprising since expected utility has been the dominant paradigm of rationality for decades. (Perhaps centuries? Wikipedia says Bernoulli invented it in 1738.) This site has actually done more than most to challenge it, I think.
Do you think you can expand on this, perhaps in a top-level post? I feel somewhat sympathetic towards what you said, but would like to understand your position better to see if I really agree with it or not.
As far as “this site has adopted expected utility as a prescriptive theory”, that’s hardly surprising since expected utility has been the dominant paradigm of rationality for decades. (Perhaps centuries? Wikipedia says Bernoulli invented it in 1738.) This site has actually done more than most to challenge it, I think.