AlexSchell comments on [SEQ RERUN] Torture vs. Dust Specks - Less Wrong

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Comment author: AlexSchell 12 October 2011 04:55:01AM 1 point [-]

If a person can't be sure that something even happened to them, my utility function is rounding it off to zero.

This may be already obvious to you, but such a utility function is incoherent (as made vivid by examples like the self-torturer).