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