mildly disapprove of words like “a widely-used strategy”
The text says “A widely-used strategy for arguing for norms of rationality involves avoiding dominated strategies”, which is true* and something we thought would be familiar to everyone who is interested in these topics. For example, see the discussion of Dutch book arguments in the SEP entry on Bayesianism and all of the LessWrong discussion on money pump/dominance/sure loss arguments (e.g., see all of the references in and comments on this post). But fair enough, it would have been better to include citations.
“we often encounter claims”
We did include (potential) examples in this case. Also, similarly to the above, I would think that encountering claims like “we ought to use some heuristic because it has worked well in the past” is commonplace among readers so didn’t see the need to provide extensive evidence.
*Granted, we are using “dominated strategy” in the wide sense of “strategy that you are certain is worse than something else”, which glosses over technical points like the distinction between dominated strategy and sure loss.
The text says “A widely-used strategy for arguing for norms of rationality involves avoiding dominated strategies”, which is true* and something we thought would be familiar to everyone who is interested in these topics. For example, see the discussion of Dutch book arguments in the SEP entry on Bayesianism and all of the LessWrong discussion on money pump/dominance/sure loss arguments (e.g., see all of the references in and comments on this post). But fair enough, it would have been better to include citations.
We did include (potential) examples in this case. Also, similarly to the above, I would think that encountering claims like “we ought to use some heuristic because it has worked well in the past” is commonplace among readers so didn’t see the need to provide extensive evidence.
*Granted, we are using “dominated strategy” in the wide sense of “strategy that you are certain is worse than something else”, which glosses over technical points like the distinction between dominated strategy and sure loss.