Nornagest comments on Observed Pascal's Mugging - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Nornagest 28 June 2011 10:23:48PM *  0 points [-]

True enough, but that distinction represents a can of worms that I don't really want to open here. Point is, you don't need that sort of utilitarian sleight of hand to get Pascal's mugging to work -- the vulnerability it exploits lies elsewhere, probably in the way Solomonoff-based decision theory bounds its expectations.