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by fedeb95 1183 days ago
just found out this paper by Kelly (which may be widely known as the Kelly criterion), stating that one should maximize the expected value of the logarithm of its capital, independent from one's utility function of money, in which Kelly starts by mere information theory considerations.

Edit: the paper https://www.princeton.edu/~wbialek/rome/refs/kelly_56.pdf