Well, it just didn’t occur to me that I could make such a bet.
(Or even, I might sell the lottery ticket with an auction: someone richer than me (who would assign roughly the same utility as me to $1M but much less utility than me to smaller amounts such as $500) might buy it for a lot more money.)
If it wouldn’t have seemed to you like a decisive refutation that a fat man might not be able stop a trolley, then you’re not stupid, and didn’t immediately think of auctioning off the ticket because you understand how these things are supposed to work.
Well, I sometimes do think about non-LPCW answers to hypothetical dilemmas (though I don’t say them aloud), but in this case I didn’t even think of it. (I feel like my inclination to come up with non-LPCW answers is a function of the scenario’s plausibility, but not a monotonic one.)
Well, it just didn’t occur to me that I could make such a bet.
(Or even, I might sell the lottery ticket with an auction: someone richer than me (who would assign roughly the same utility as me to $1M but much less utility than me to smaller amounts such as $500) might buy it for a lot more money.)
If it wouldn’t have seemed to you like a decisive refutation that a fat man might not be able stop a trolley, then you’re not stupid, and didn’t immediately think of auctioning off the ticket because you understand how these things are supposed to work.
Well, I sometimes do think about non-LPCW answers to hypothetical dilemmas (though I don’t say them aloud), but in this case I didn’t even think of it. (I feel like my inclination to come up with non-LPCW answers is a function of the scenario’s plausibility, but not a monotonic one.)