Jonathan_Graehl comments on Exterminating life is rational - Less Wrong
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In saying "our compression of subjective time can be exponential", do you actually mean that the compression rate may keep growing exponentially as a function of real time?
"if your utility is at risk of going negative; it's not possible that you would not accept a .999% risk". I assume you mean that if my utility is around 0, and things are trending toward worse, I should be happy to accept a 99.9% chance of destroying the universe (assuming I'm the .1% possibility gives me some improvement).
"Is life barely worth living? Buy a lottery ticket, and if you don't win, kill yourself - you win either way!" - probably not the best marketing campaign for the state-run lottery.
Look at where the semicolon is. You've combined the end of one clause with the beginning of a different clause.
I wrote a post on that..