AdeleneDawner comments on Open thread, October 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: AdeleneDawner 03 October 2011 09:14:39AM 6 points [-]

The whole point of Pascal's Mugging is that an arbitrarily small probability of something happening is automatically swamped if there's infinite utility or disutility if it does, according to all usual ways of calculating. Making the arbitrarily small probability smaller doesn't fix this.