Yes to what Nick Tarleton said. I didn’t give a justification for preferring 2B to 2A because I was willing to assume that, and then gave reasons for nonetheless preferring 1A to 1B. There are things that certainty can buy you.
Also yes to what steven0461 said. While you can reverse the symmetry, you can’t reverse it twice—once you’ve given me certainty, you can’t take it away again (or at least, in this thought experiment, I won’t be willing to give it up).
Eliezer’s money-pump might still work once (thus making it not so much a money-pump) but inasmuch as you end up buying certainty for a penny, I don’t find it all that problematic.
Yes to what Nick Tarleton said. I didn’t give a justification for preferring 2B to 2A because I was willing to assume that, and then gave reasons for nonetheless preferring 1A to 1B. There are things that certainty can buy you.
Also yes to what steven0461 said. While you can reverse the symmetry, you can’t reverse it twice—once you’ve given me certainty, you can’t take it away again (or at least, in this thought experiment, I won’t be willing to give it up).
Eliezer’s money-pump might still work once (thus making it not so much a money-pump) but inasmuch as you end up buying certainty for a penny, I don’t find it all that problematic.