army1987 comments on Backward Reasoning Over Decision Trees - Less Wrong

60 Post author: Yvain 30 June 2012 03:17AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 28 June 2012 08:37:49AM *  3 points [-]

Go to the beach? (Utility +5) Hit yourself on the head with a hammer? (Utility -20)

Actually, I wouldn't be willing to hit my head with a hammer with probability 25% in order to go to the beach with probability 100% - epsilon, so the magnitude of the second utility ought to be much larger. YMMV.

ETA: Well, if you don't specify how hard I am supposed to hit myself, maybe I would. :-)