I went on a rant about this once when I was TAing a class of first year PHD microeconomics St Petersburg Paradox "It's not a goddamn paradox! Your model just sucks!" https://twitter.com/LucioMM1/status/1430616221347614721 …
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I believe I used to hold the same view, but (for me at least) it was tied to a fairly anthropomorphic view of the difference between paradox and misjudgment, so when I finally internalized Trivers/Axelrod it clicked that the vN-M paradoxes were a coherent class
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(probably also bc they the take on an added significance in the hypothesis that individual psychology emerges from collective choice problems between multiple modules)
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