On The Independence Axiom — LessWrong
The Fifth Fourth Postulate of Decision Theory In 1820, the Hungarian mathematician Farkas Bolyai wrote a desperate letter to his son János, who had b…
x On The Independence Axiom — LessWrong Decision theory Expected utility Utility Functions Rationality World Modeling Curated 2026 Top Fifty: 44 % 339 On The Independence Axiom by Ihor Kendiukhov 8th Mar 2026 27 min read 90 339 The Fifth Fourth Postulate of Decision Theory In 1820, the Hungarian mathematician Farkas Bolyai wrote a desperate letter to his son János, who had become consumed by the same problem that had haunted his father for decades: "You must not attempt this approach to parallels. I know this way to the very end. I have traversed this bottomless night, which extinguished all l
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