Agree with chesspain and surf on definition.
I think it’s a bit weird to use in that spot, but probably not strictly wrong.
Agree. It can imply indifference in some cases, but it is not equivalent to indifference.
Someone at the table said I was using the word incorrectly, which was surprising because I’ve been using ambivalent to mean indifferent my entire life 
. Damn
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If you are indifferent because you have calculated the EV of both plays and you are certain that they are the same, then ambivalence is not right there.
If you are indifferent because because you’re just not sure which action is better and you can think of arguments supporting each, then I think ambivalence is OK.
Well my play was the correct one, him folding is higher EV for me, so I’m not completely indifferent but I really don’t care that much if I get called and get it in as 55/45 favorite or whatever. There was no point where I was torn making a decision
In this specific case, it is not about you being torn about making a decision, it about you being torn about what you would have preferred him to do. If you’re not torn, but just simply don’t care, then it’s not ambivalence.
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Any predictions for the Idaho students murders? Sadly, it definitely feels like serial killer stuff.
You would be ambivalent if you knew that him folding was +EV, but also you are a degen gambling addict who would like to get a dopamine squirt, so you aren’t sure which you would rather he do.
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I don’t think it’s correct to say you are ambivalent about two different possibilities. It’s in the nature of how the word is used that you are ambivalent about one known quantity, be it a person or thing or situation or whatever.
one decision?
Might want to put that in this thread, although I guess there might not be much discussion either way. I was ignoring the story because I figured it was “pretty white girl got killed” but guess there might be more going on.
ambivalence is literally derived from the Latin word for both (ambo).
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/ambivalence
They can’t get staff.
They should try paying more.
That is part of it, but not the whole issue.
Lex Fridman is Joe Rogan for people who don’t smoke pot.
https://twitter.com/lexfridman/status/1594162298729340928?t=YTPTyPbbD149HkVdeUcmPQ&s=19
Wearing a suit makes him an intellectual.
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I never heard of this guy until like a month ago when he interviewed Hikaru.
I wasn’t too impressed with Fridman’s side of the interview, but just looking at the archives he has a lot of long conversations with interesting people.
I don’t need 3 hours with Jordan Peterson or Ben Shapiro but I wish I had time for a few hours with Rick Rubin or Jaron Lanier or Stephen Wolfram or Brian Greene.
His voice is so annoying, and he loves riding rogan.
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