HonoreDB comments on A Thought on Pascal's Mugging - Less Wrong

12 Post author: komponisto 10 December 2010 06:08AM

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Comment author: HonoreDB 13 December 2010 06:33:14AM 0 points [-]

No responses and a downvote. Clearly I'm missing something obvious.

Comment author: komponisto 13 December 2010 06:52:50AM *  0 points [-]

I wasn't the downvoter (nor the upvoter), and wouldn't have downvoted; but I would suggest considering the abstract version of the problem:

Given that, in general, a Turing machine can increase in utility vastly faster than it increases in complexity, how should an Occam-abiding mind avoid being dominated by tiny probabilities of vast utilities?