cousin_it comments on Tendencies in reflective equilibrium - Less Wrong

27 Post author: Yvain 20 July 2011 10:38AM

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Comment author: cousin_it 20 July 2011 01:00:52PM *  3 points [-]

Agreed.

Here's an idea that just occurred to me: you could replace Solomonoff induction with a more arbitrary prior (interpreted as "degree of caring" like Wei Dai suggests) and hand-tune your degree of caring for huge/unfair universes so Pascal's mugging stops working. Informally, you could value your money more in universes that don't contain omnipotent muggers. This approach still feels unsatisfactory, but I don't remember it suggested before...

Comment author: Nisan 21 July 2011 01:14:44AM 1 point [-]

Is this different from jimrandomh's proposal to penalize the prior probability of events of utility of large magnitude, or komponisto's proposal to penalize the utility?