Shouldn’t these items be lotteries? which would you prefer: 50% chance of Design Patterns or 100% chance of Political Science?
Why? Would the idea be to take account of the cost of writing about the different topics?
I was referencing the standard way to talk about identifying utility functions. If you did that you could try to approximate a LW utility function over topics. I was mostly joking and should have made that clearer.
Shouldn’t these items be lotteries? which would you prefer: 50% chance of Design Patterns or 100% chance of Political Science?
Why? Would the idea be to take account of the cost of writing about the different topics?
I was referencing the standard way to talk about identifying utility functions. If you did that you could try to approximate a LW utility function over topics. I was mostly joking and should have made that clearer.