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It is also worth keeping in mind that the St. Petersburg game may notbe as unrealistic as Jeffrey claims. The fact that the bank does nothave an indefinite amount of money (or other assets) availablebefore the coin is flipped should not be a problem. All thatmatters is that the bank can make a credible promise to theplayer that the correct amount will be made available within areasonable period of time after the flipping has been completed. Howmuch money the bank has in the vault when the player plays the game isirrelevant. This is important because, as noted in section 2, theamount the player actually wins will always be finite. We can thusimagine that the game works as follows: We first flip the coin, andonce we know what finite amount the bank owes the player, the CEO willsee to it that the bank raises enough money.
If this does not convince the player, we can imagine that the centralbank issues a blank check in which the player gets to fill in thecorrect amount once the coin has been flipped. Because the check isissued by the central bank it cannot bounce. New money isautomatically created as checks issued by the central bank areintroduced in the economy. Jeffrey dismisses this version of the St.Petersburg game with the following argument:
Another type of practical worry concerns the temporal dimension of theSt. Petersburg game. Brito (1975) claims that the coin flipping maysimply take too long time. If each flip takes n seconds, wemust make sure it would be possible to flip it sufficientlymany times before the player dies. Obviously, if there exists an upperlimit to how many times the coin can be flipped the expected utilitywould be finite too.
In the contemporary literature on the St. Petersburg paradox practicalworries are often ignored, either because it is possible to imaginescenarios in which they do not arise, or because highly idealizeddecision problems with unbounded utilities and infinite state spacesare deemed to be interesting in their own right.
In the Petrograd game introduced by Colyvan (2008) the player wins $1more than in the St. Petersburg game regardless of how many times thecoin is flipped. So instead of winning 2 utility units if the coinlands heads on the first toss, the player wins 3; and so on. See Table 1.
Is the Petrograd game worth more than the St. Petersburg game becausethe outcomes of the Petrograd game dominate those of the St.Petersburg game? In this context, dominance means that the player willalways win $1 more regardless of which state of the world turns out tobe the true state, that is, regardless of how many times the coin isflipped. The problem is that it is easy to imagine versions of thePetrograd game to which the dominance principle would not beapplicable. Imagine, for instance, a version of the Petrograd gamethat is exactly like the one in Table 1 except that for some very improbable outcome (say, if the coin landsheads for the first time on the 100th flip) the player wins1 unit less than in the St. Petersburg game. This game, thePetrogradskij game, does not dominate the St. Petersburg game.However, since it is almost certain that the player will be better offby playing the Petrogradskij game a plausible decision theory shouldbe able to explain why the Petrogradskij game is worth more than theSt. Petersburg game.
However, Peterson (2013) notes that REUT cannot explain why theLeningradskij game is worth more than the Leningradgame (see Table 2). The Leningradskij game is the version of the Petrograd game in whichthe player in addition to receiving a finite number of units ofutility also gets to play the St. Petersburg game (SP) if the coinlands heads up in the second round. In the Leningrad game the playergets to play the St. Petersburg game (SP) if the coin lands heads upin the third round.
Let us also mention another, quite simple variation of the originalSt. Petersburg game, which is played as follows (see Peterson 2015:87): A manipulated coin lands heads up with probability 0.4 and theplayer wins a prize worth \(2^n\) units of utility, where n isthe number of times the coin was tossed. This game, the Moscow game,is more likely to yield a long sequence of flips and is thereforeworth more than the St. Petersburg game, but the expected utility ofboth games is the same, because both games have infinite expectedutility. It might be tempting to say that the Moscow game is moreattractive because the Moscow game stochastically dominatesthe St. Petersburg game. (That one game stochastically dominatesanother game means that for every possible outcome, the first game hasat least as high a probability of yielding a prize worth at leastu units of utility as the second game; and for some u,the first game yields u with a higher probability than thesecond.) However, the stochastic dominance principle is inapplicableto games in which there is a small risk that the player wins a prizeworth slightly less than in the other game. We can, for instance,imagine that if the coin lands heads on the 100th flip theMoscow game pays one unit less than the St. Petersburg game; in thisscenario neither game stochastically dominates the other. Despitethis, it still seems reasonable to insist that the game that is almostcertain to yield a better outcome (in the sense explained above) isworth more. The challenge is to explain why in a robust andnon-arbitrary way.
The Pasadena paradox introduced by Nover and Hájek (2004) isinspired by the St. Petersburg game, but the pay-off schedule isdifferent. As usual, a fair coin is flipped n times until itcomes up heads for the first time. If n is odd the player wins\((2^n)/n\) units of utility; however, if n is even the playerhas to pay \((2^n)/n\) units. How much should one be willingto pay for playing this game?
if one player keeps getting to decide whether to play again or quit,then she can almost certainly guarantee as much profit as she wants,regardless of the (constant) price per play. (Easwaran 2008: 635)
A casino offers a game of chance for a single player in which a fair coin is tossed at each stage. The initial stake begins at 2 dollars and is doubled every time tails appears. The first time heads appears, the game ends and the player wins whatever is the current stake. Thus the player wins 2 dollars if heads appears on the first toss, 4 dollars if tails appears on the first toss and heads on the second, 8 dollars if tails appears on the first two tosses and heads on the third, and so on. Mathematically, the player wins 2 k + 1 \displaystyle 2^k+1 dollars, where k \displaystyle k is the number of consecutive tails tosses.[5] What would be a fair price to pay the casino for entering the game?
To answer this, one needs to consider what would be the expected payout at each stage: with probability .mw-parser-output .sfracwhite-space:nowrap.mw-parser-output .sfrac.tion,.mw-parser-output .sfrac .tiondisplay:inline-block;vertical-align:-0.5em;font-size:85%;text-align:center.mw-parser-output .sfrac .num,.mw-parser-output .sfrac .dendisplay:block;line-height:1em;margin:0 0.1em.mw-parser-output .sfrac .denborder-top:1px solid.mw-parser-output .sr-onlyborder:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px1/2, the player wins 2 dollars; with probability 1/4 the player wins 4 dollars; with probability 1/8 the player wins 8 dollars, and so on. Assuming the game can continue as long as the coin toss results in tails and, in particular, that the casino has unlimited resources, the expected value is thus
Considering nothing but the expected value of the net change in one's monetary wealth, one should therefore play the game at any price if offered the opportunity. Yet, Daniel Bernoulli, after describing the game with an initial stake of one ducat, stated, "Although the standard calculation shows that the value of [the player's] expectation is infinitely great, it has ... to be admitted that any fairly reasonable man would sell his chance, with great pleasure, for twenty ducats."[5] Robert Martin quotes Ian Hacking as saying, "Few of us would pay even $25 to enter such a game", and he says most commentators would agree.[6] The apparent paradox is the discrepancy between what people seem willing to pay to enter the game and the infinite expected value.[5]
Note: Under game rules which specify that if the player wins more than the casino's bankroll they will be paid all the casino has, the additional expected value is less than it would be if the casino had enough funds to cover one more round, i.e. less than $1. For the player to win W he must be allowed to play round L+1. So the additional expected value is W/2L+1.
Paul Samuelson resolves the paradox[31] by arguing that, even if an entity had infinite resources, the game would never be offered. If the lottery represents an infinite expected gain to the player, then it also represents an infinite expected loss to the host. No one could be observed paying to play the game because it would never be offered. As Samuelson summarized the argument: "Paul will never be willing to give as much as Peter will demand for such a contract; and hence the indicated activity will take place at the equilibrium level of zero intensity."
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