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As I have written elsewhere (Poker Gaming and Life), what made me think about this was a comment made to me by businessman and expert poker player Jay Heimowitz during the World Series of Poker. He told me that he was not going to play in the final event unless he was ahead money at… Continue reading My Technique to Develop Willpower

Those who are already committing negative EV crimes are not likely to increase their output much if the EV turns positive due to the fact that the punishments, or the probability of getting caught, are diminished. However, there is no way of knowing how many immoral people are waiting in the wings for plus EV… Continue reading Can Leniency Create a New Category of Criminal?

Maybe that policy will mean more people will avail of that option. But that’s not a good enough reason to not allow it. Stipulators will not harm others, rather than of being forced to without this policy. Secondly if they come to their senses, probably with the aid of counseling in jail, they can be… Continue reading Allow Institutionalized Ex-Prisoners to Stipulate to Committing a Crime to Get Back In. 

Can’t claim this as my idea but I include this because it’s important. When it comes time to sell something that you previously bought you should barely consider what you paid for it. Pretend that you don’t even remember and charge what the traffic will bear. If that means selling it for a loss, so… Continue reading Pawnshop Principle.

Twice in my life I arranged for a close relative who my (different) partners had not seen in years, to secretly fly in as a birthday present. I hid them both in the closet and told the recipients that their present was in there. Easily the two best gift reactions I ever experienced. I highly… Continue reading People as Presents

Kidnappers, escaped murderers, hostage takers, and others, sometimes find themselves in a situation where there is no difference in punishment whether or not they kill someone. That clearly should not be. Thus, the law should offer some non-trivial incentive for not killing as distasteful as that policy might be. No further explanation needed. All comments… Continue reading Don’t Allow Murder Freerolls.

Related to the previous idea, since the efficient market hypothesis is rarely wrong, it means that if you find a very little-known important fact or idea about a company or sports event, it barely hurts to be ignorant about all the other facts pertaining to them. If your info points to a good bet, you… Continue reading Let the (mainly) Efficient Market Work for You.

Faking a confession would of course be a major felony. There are several decent arguments against this idea, (which would have some strict criteria attached to it) but they all pale in comparison to the principle that it is a much graver sin to punish innocents than to fail to punish someone guilty. My forthcoming… Continue reading Offer Amnesty to Actual Perpetrator If He Confesses in Order to Spring Unjustly Convicted Prisoner Facing Many More Years in Jail.

As in my handicapped parking idea, most of the money would be used to help the disabled. The general idea would be that some public businesses that have few disabled customers and are facing large expenses to retrofit, should be allowed to contribute perhaps half that amount to disabled causes to avoid that retrofit. Probably… Continue reading Allow Some Businesses to Buy Out of Disability Rules.

Don’t underestimate someone who, perhaps purposely, does something known to be wrong but actually is barely worse than its alternative. Making the two point with 6-4. Reraising early with 55. Other stuff from real life. They may be trying to lull you into making your own much worse mistakes. No further explanation needed. All comments… Continue reading Don’t Confuse Clearcut Errors with Bad Errors