Eugine_Nier comments on The elephant in the room, AMA - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 14 May 2011 03:23:45AM *  3 points [-]

Here is the technical reason:

If you use a Solomonoff prior nearly any utility function will not have a well defined expected value, i.e., trying to calculate it will give ∞ − ∞.

Or basically trying to take all possible versions of Pascal's mugging into account makes expected utility calculations mathematically incoherent.