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

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Comment author: timtyler 18 May 2011 05:38:00PM 0 points [-]

As far as I know my utility function doesn't even reach the sort of extremes necessary to make such an offer sound tempting.

I'll have your lottery tickets, then!

Comment author: wedrifid 18 May 2011 06:38:02PM 0 points [-]

I'll have your lottery tickets, then!

If you can offer me something that gives me greater utility than my lottery tickets then I will naturally be willing to trade. This should not be surprising.

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