Eugine_Nier comments on St. Petersburg Mugging Implies You Have Bounded Utility - Less Wrong
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So how about avoiding your version by saying that all the terms in my utility function are bounded except for the ones that scale linearly with the number of people?
That seems hackish, but given a mathematical definition of "person" it might be implementable. I don't know what that definition would be. Given that we don't have a clear definition for "person", Hanson's proposal (and anthropic arguments in general) seem like bunk to me.