NihilCredo comments on Fixedness From Frailty - Less Wrong

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Comment author: NihilCredo 15 November 2010 03:32:29AM *  0 points [-]

On a minimally similar note, while I acknowledge that it would be rational for me, right now, to sincerely intend to pay should I run into a counterfactual mugger, I currently have no intention to do so on the basis that

sum{for k=0 to infinity} of (k * P(an event sufficiently similar to CM with potential payoff k happens to me)) <= (warm and fuzzy feeling I get by not going with the other sheeple [*insert teenager contrarian laugh*])