Vladimir_Nesov comments on Quantum Russian Roulette - Less Wrong

6 Post author: Christian_Szegedy 18 September 2009 08:49AM

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 18 September 2009 08:50:58PM *  1 point [-]

You can assign high negative utility to certain death.

You can, but then you should also do so in the expected utility calculation, which is never actually done in most discussions of MWI in this context, and isn't done in this post. The problem is using MWI as rationalization for invalid intuitions.