nyan_sandwich comments on Terminal Bias - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 31 January 2012 06:43:59AM 0 points [-]

humph. if we are not assuming the money gets used, I'm not sure how we can apply any particular utility to it at all.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 31 January 2012 07:10:19AM 2 points [-]

We can assume the money gets used on oneself, which is much more likely to happen in the stated scenario.