That looks like something else, actually- that’s the sharply falling weight near 1, as uncertain things aren’t as valuable as certain things. Yvain is discussing when people model a tiny chance of winning as much larger- as vividly displayed by the lottery, for example.
You’re right; comment retracted/edited. I’d thought that it referred to the sharp changes in weight near 1 and 0, but a little bit of googling confirms that the term is only applied to the change near 1.
That looks like something else, actually- that’s the sharply falling weight near 1, as uncertain things aren’t as valuable as certain things. Yvain is discussing when people model a tiny chance of winning as much larger- as vividly displayed by the lottery, for example.
You’re right; comment retracted/edited. I’d thought that it referred to the sharp changes in weight near 1 and 0, but a little bit of googling confirms that the term is only applied to the change near 1.