I don't quite understand. Going with the worked out example in the post you link to:
...To account for the compounding nature of losses, we can use the geometric expectation of total wealth instead of the arithmetic expectation of gains/losses when evaluating the alternatives. This is the mathematically correct thing to do, although I leave out the proof. If you want to dig into the gory details, see The Kelly Capital Growth Investment Criterion; MacLean, Thorp, & Ziemba; World Scientific Publishing; 2011. Yes, it’s that Thorp.
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Just a side note: the "correct" way to deal with irrational thoughts is to find the feeling in your body that is creating that thought, and then sitting with that feeling nonreactively until it dissolves into insight.
I don't necessarily have an argument, just years of practice and plenty of practitioners around me that would attest for this method. Go try it!