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uh you were right that it depends on the assumptions you make, sorry about that! in order for your actualy claim to be right you need to make batshit crazy assumptions
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Replying to @danrobinson @elliot_olds and 2 others
er ok sorry about that! you might be right. I think the assumptions necessary for yours to hold are: 1) no xfers 2) can't see how the other is doing 3) goes on literally infinitely 4) assets grow unboundedly upwards in the median case
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and the original thing you said that spawned this violates those assumptions you'd have to be making to justify your later claim
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Replying to @SBF_FTX @SBF_Alameda and 3 others
Totally, it’s irrelevant. But given that you are managing this $1k as its own pot, might as well manage it well. If you robotically maximize EV for it, then it will get St. Petersburged and end up at 0 with very high probability
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And the other assumptions (to the extent I understand your assumption 4) were necessary already. So, do we agree that if log-portfolio-wealth maximization is optimal for the full portfolio, log-pot-wealth-maximization is optimal if the portfolio is divided into pots?
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hm ok so I think my conclusion here is that we were, in fact, not disagreeing on the math -- we were just disagreeing on the assumptions though as I understand it your assumptions now include "thinks such that my personal preference function would be equivalent to log-wealth"
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