Benefit/Risk Analysis

• We needed a way to talk about the effects of an action

• An action

  • can definitely cause some other action
  • may cause some other action
  • may prevent some other action from happening

• If for the caused actions, the performer is

  • beneficiary, they are benefits
  • maleficiary, they are risks

• Benefits and risks are conditional on the outcome

  
  
  Reuse, Extend, Deduce, Conditionalize

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