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

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Comment author: Benquo 08 June 2011 04:20:29AM 0 points [-]

If the utility can be arbitrarily large depending on N, then an arbitrarily large finite skepticism discount can be overcome by considering a sufficiently large N.

Of course a skepticism discount factor that scales with N might be enough to obviate Pascal's Wager.