fool comments on A summary of Savage's foundations for probability and utility. - Less Wrong

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Comment author: fool 03 February 2012 01:35:23AM 1 point [-]

I don't think you can just uncritically say "surely the world is thus and so".

But it was a conditional statement. If the universe is discrete and finite, then obviously there are no immortal agents either.

Basically I don't see that aspect of P6 as more problematic than the unbounded resource assumption. And when we question that assumption, we'll be questioning a lot more than P6.