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

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Comment author: Peter_de_Blanc 11 June 2011 05:31:22AM 0 points [-]

This tracks how good a god you are, and seems to make the paradox disappear.

How? Are you assuming that P(N) goes to zero?

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 11 June 2011 10:23:15AM 1 point [-]

Yes. This avoids assuming there is a non-zero probability that someone has infinite power; even the dark lords of the matrix couldn't grant me unlimited utility. I think the single "I am a god" forced one into an over-strict dichotomy.

(there is a certain similarity to the question as to whether we should give non-zero probability to there existing non-computable oracles)