I somewhat expect your response will be “why would anyone be applying coherence arguments in such a ridiculously abstract way rather than studying a concrete system”, to which I would say that you are not in the intended audience.
Ok, this is a fair answer. I think you and I, at least, are basically aligned here.
I do think a lot of people took away from your post something like “all behavior can be rationalized as EU maximization”, and in particular I think a lot of people walked away with the impression that usefully applying coherence arguments to systems in our particular universe is much more rare/difficult than it actually is. But I can’t fault you much for some of your readers not paying sufficiently close attention, especially when my review at the top of this thread is largely me complaining about how people missed nuances in this post.
Ok, this is a fair answer. I think you and I, at least, are basically aligned here.
I do think a lot of people took away from your post something like “all behavior can be rationalized as EU maximization”, and in particular I think a lot of people walked away with the impression that usefully applying coherence arguments to systems in our particular universe is much more rare/difficult than it actually is. But I can’t fault you much for some of your readers not paying sufficiently close attention, especially when my review at the top of this thread is largely me complaining about how people missed nuances in this post.
(Once again, great use of that link)