timtyler comments on A simple counterexample to deBlanc 2007? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 30 May 2011 11:59:53AM 0 points [-]

The future is big enough that I don't think that cutting off the infinite tail helps.

It sure helps with the particular problem of adding up an infinite number of finite things giving an infinite value. That's what the problem under discussion here boils down to.