Ah yes, sorry, I should have known from your “EDIT 2”. I don’t agree that you were right in essence; averaging over all outcomes and totaling over all outcomes mean the exact same thing as far as I can tell, and maximizing expected utility does correspond to averaging over all outcomes and not just the subset where you’re alive.
Ah yes, sorry, I should have known from your “EDIT 2”. I don’t agree that you were right in essence; averaging over all outcomes and totaling over all outcomes mean the exact same thing as far as I can tell, and maximizing expected utility does correspond to averaging over all outcomes and not just the subset where you’re alive.