Yvain’s argument doesn’t hold water, it’s just an intuition pump. The mugger is irrelevant and the threat is irrelevant, it’s the tiny probabilities that matter. There is a minimum probability regime beyond which expected rewards goes to zero.
Yvain’s argument doesn’t hold water, it’s just an intuition pump. The mugger is irrelevant and the threat is irrelevant, it’s the tiny probabilities that matter. There is a minimum probability regime beyond which expected rewards goes to zero.