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Old 06-23-2006, 01:04 AM
Masquerade Masquerade is offline
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Default Re: The envelope problem, and a possible solution

Your intuition is correct of course and it's EV neutral - at least for meta-beings in a universe where all amounts of money are equally likely.

It's funny seeing Aaron's avatar here instead of a finance forum where I usually read his wisdom. I assume he's making the point that once you switch to real money in this world and real people with utility functions then it's not so clear-cut. Suppose the amount in the envelope was 1/2 of all the money in the world for example?
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