Decision Theory Paradoxes

• Newcomb's Paradox - A predictor who is almost always right offers two boxes. Box A has $1,000 (visible). Box B has eithe...

• Parrondo's Paradox - Two losing gambling strategies can be combined to create a winning strategy! By alternating between ...

• Ellsberg Paradox - People prefer known risks over unknown risks, even when the expected values are identical. We're amb...

• Region-Beta Paradox - We often recover FASTER from intense negative events than mild ones. Severe trauma triggers coping m...

• Arrow's Impossibility Theorem - No voting system can satisfy all fairness criteria simultaneously. Democracy is mathematically impos...

• Condorcet Paradox - Majority prefers A to B, B to C, and C to A! Group preferences can be cyclic even when individual pr...

• Prisoner's Dilemma - Two rational prisoners will both confess, even though both staying silent is better for each. Indivi...

• Buridan's Ass - A donkey equally hungry and thirsty, placed exactly between food and water, would starve - unable to...

• Paradox of Voting - The cost of voting exceeds any single vote's expected impact. Why do rational people vote at all?...