DanielLC comments on Pascal's Mugging - Penalizing the prior probability? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DanielLC 17 May 2011 08:52:27PM 2 points [-]

The solution is flawed. What if he instead says "I will give a single person 3^^^3 utilons of pain"?

Anyway, the idea is that the probability of that situation can't go above 3^^^3 to one against. You'd be one of the people he creates, not the one he's asking.