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    Risk aversion, as Buchak argues in 'Risk and Rationality'... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Outcomes in expected-utility calculations must include every relevant consideration, not merely causal consequences

    Risk aversion, as Buchak argues in 'Risk and Rationality', reflects rational attitudes toward gambles that pure causal-consequence accounting systematically misrepresents.

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    • 1.Expected utility theory ignores how outcome distribution affects welfare; concentrated risk can harm even when expected value is identical.
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    • 2.Rational agents legitimately weight catastrophic outcomes more heavily than probability-weighted consequences alone would justify.
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    • 3.Buchak's risk-weighting function captures real differences in rational preference structures that standard decision theory cannot model.
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    • 1.Risk aversion can be fully explained by diminishing marginal utility without invoking additional rational principles beyond consequence-based reasoning.
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    • 2.Buchak's framework risks rationalizing any preference as 'rational risk attitude' without principled constraints on which risk weightings count as rational.
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    • 3.If risk aversion reflects rational attitudes independent of consequences, it becomes unclear why probability and outcome values matter for rationality at all.
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