Will_Sawin comments on Model Uncertainty, Pascalian Reasoning and Utilitarianism - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Will_Sawin 17 June 2011 03:40:35PM 0 points [-]

In general, it should be impossible to allocate 0 to U2 in this sense. What's the probability that an angel comes down and magically forces you to do the U2 decision? Around epsilon, i'd say.

U2 then becomes totally meaningless, and we are back with a bounded utility function.