Advice Merit Demerit

- The existence of the concept [[crime of advising a defendant]].

• On the other hand, a world in which advice does not exist at all is not ideal.
• What’s the difference.
• For example, when several people are giving advice to a person’s statement on a social networking site, people often give advice without looking at what other people are doing.
  • At this time, the expected value is negative because the benefit brought by advice that overlaps with others is zero.
  • Pure evil.
• It is one thing to “give advice” and another to “make sure the advice is useful to the other person.”
  • There is always the possibility of giving advice that is not beneficial to the other person because you don’t know exactly what their situation is.
  • Generate a profit with probability p and a loss with probability 1-p
  • Expected value should be positive
• Conversely, if the recipient can go through the unhelpful advice at zero cost, the expected value is positive.
  • The lower the cost of responding to advice, the better.
• If the cost of determining whether the advice is correct is high, the expected value is likely to be negative
  • Advice that is not sourced often has a high “can I believe it?” decision cost.

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