Armok_GoB comments on Maximizing Cost-effectiveness via Critical Inquiry - Less Wrong

20 Post author: HoldenKarnofsky 10 November 2011 07:25PM

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Comment author: Armok_GoB 11 November 2011 10:59:49PM 3 points [-]

It's not a probable outcome, but there literally is no such thing as an impossible outcome.

You donate to the Corrupt Society For Curing Non-existent Diseases in Cute Kittens, the money is used for hallucinogens, the hallucinogens are found by the owners kid, who when high comes up with a physics kitchen experiment which creates an Zeno Machine, and mess around with it randomly. This turns out to simulate an infinite amount of infinitely large cheesecakes, and through a symbolism that you haven't learnt about yet simulated chesecakes have according to your utility function an utility equal to the logarithm of their weight in solar masses.

Comment author: [deleted] 12 November 2011 12:14:38AM 0 points [-]

Who said my utility function was unbounded? (Which, BTW, is the same as my reply to the Pascal's Mugger in the wording “create 3^^^3 units of disutility”.)

Comment author: dlthomas 12 November 2011 12:21:23AM *  3 points [-]

No one - he just said you don't have infinite confidence that your utility function is bounded.

Comment author: Armok_GoB 12 November 2011 06:23:37PM 0 points [-]

Yup. Thanks for handling that one for me.