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

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Comment author: Manfred 08 June 2011 02:06:39AM 0 points [-]

Pascal's mugging requires the victim to say what probability he assigns to the mugger being honest, and this one doesn't

Ah, true, because your promise is infinite expected utility without actually saying "infinite utility," which might put some people off.