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by choffstein 3021 days ago
"Kelly maximizes utility of money modeled as a logarithmic function."

Absolutely true, but consider what log utility also creates a decision rule that leads to growth-rate optimization under multiplicative bets.

You may find these notes from Ole Peters interesting https://ergodicityeconomics.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/ergo...