“if your utility is at risk of going negative; it’s not possible that you would not accept a .999% risk”. I assume you mean that if my utility is around 0, and things are trending toward worse, I should be happy to accept a 99.9% chance of destroying the universe (assuming I’m the .1% possibility gives me some improvement).
“Is life barely worth living? Buy a lottery ticket, and if you don’t win, kill yourself—you win either way!”—probably not the best marketing campaign for the state-run lottery.
“if your utility is at risk of going negative; it’s not possible that you would not accept a .999% risk”
Look at where the semicolon is. You’ve combined the end of one clause with the beginning of a different clause.
“Is life barely worth living? Buy a lottery ticket, and if you don’t win, kill yourself—you win either way!”—probably not the best marketing campaign for the state-run lottery.
“if your utility is at risk of going negative; it’s not possible that you would not accept a .999% risk”. I assume you mean that if my utility is around 0, and things are trending toward worse, I should be happy to accept a 99.9% chance of destroying the universe (assuming I’m the .1% possibility gives me some improvement).
“Is life barely worth living? Buy a lottery ticket, and if you don’t win, kill yourself—you win either way!”—probably not the best marketing campaign for the state-run lottery.
Look at where the semicolon is. You’ve combined the end of one clause with the beginning of a different clause.
I wrote a post on that..