Consequentialist Foundations for Expected Utility by Vasco Grilo🔸

·Nuno Sempere··

This is a linkpost for Con­se­quen­tial­ist Foun­da­tions for Ex­pected Utility by Peter J. Ham­mond, which was pub­lished in July 1988 in The­ory and De­ci­sion. Below are the setup, premises, and con­clu­sions of the the­o­rems pre­sented there as sum­marised by Claude Opus 5 in plain lan­guage. Peter said “It Is a very good sum­mary of the most im­por­tant parts”. Re­lat­edly, you may be in­ter­ested in Peter’s ar­ti­cle Pr­era­tional­ity as avoid­ing pre­dictably re­gret­table con­se­quences...

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