Manfred comments on Absolute denial for atheists - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Manfred 03 June 2011 08:54:43PM 0 points [-]

Aside from the nice rational argument "I assign large negative utility to dying, and the expected chance of dying if I blow myself up is very high, so I assign negative expected utility to blowing myself up." Utility functions are over the state of the world.