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Great Expectations

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Logic, Rationality, and Interaction (LORI 2015)

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Standard expected utility theory faces familiar problems with the infinities. We propose a new theory based on surreal numbers and suggest that it solves many of those problems, including Pascal’s Wager and the Pasadena Game.

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  1. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA

    Eddy Keming Chen & Daniel Rubio

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  1. Dept of Comp Sci, Univ of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

    Wiebe van der Hoek

  2. Department of Philosophy, Group in Logic & the Methodology of Sci. University of California, Berkeley, California, USA

    Wesley H. Holliday

  3. Institute of Philosophy of Mind and Cognition, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

    Wen-fang Wang

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Chen, E.K., Rubio, D. (2015). Great Expectations. In: van der Hoek, W., Holliday, W., Wang, Wf. (eds) Logic, Rationality, and Interaction. LORI 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9394. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48561-3_5

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