komponisto comments on St. Petersburg Mugging Implies You Have Bounded Utility - Less Wrong

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Comment author: komponisto 08 June 2011 02:01:36AM 2 points [-]

However, even if one is willing to assign zero probability to events that contain inherent logical contradictions, that's not at all the same as assigning zero probability to a claim about the empirical world.

If claims about the empirical world can have arbitrarily small probability, then a suitable infinite conjunction of such claims has probability zero, just as surely as P(A&~A) does.