PhilGoetz comments on Exterminating life is rational - Less Wrong

17 Post author: PhilGoetz 06 August 2009 04:17PM

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 07 August 2009 02:54:45PM 0 points [-]

So does your answer change once you've drawn 10 cards and are still alive?

Comment author: Wei_Dai 07 August 2009 06:16:56PM 1 point [-]

No, if my guess is correct, then some time before I'm offered the 11th card, Omega will say "I can't double your utility again" or equivalently, "There is no prize I can offer you such that you'd prefer a .5 probability of it to keeping what you have."