jacob_cannell comments on The Generalized Anti-Pascal Principle: Utility Convergence of Infinitesimal Probabilities - Less Wrong

-4 Post author: jacob_cannell 18 December 2011 11:47PM

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Comment author: jacob_cannell 19 December 2011 06:02:23AM 0 points [-]

Yvain's argument doesn't hold water, it's just an intuition pump. The mugger is irrelevant and the threat is irrelevant, it's the tiny probabilities that matter. There is a minimum probability regime beyond which expected rewards goes to zero.