gwern comments on A possible solution to pascals mugging. - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 13 October 2012 03:33:06AM 0 points [-]

Now you have two omnipotent god entities, each offering you a more or less random result. All you know about the result is that it's going to be positive or negative.

One of which is in a temporally advantaged position in which he can do anything you can do and do more in addition to that - a strictly superior position.

Do you get, on average and over a very large sample size, more utility from killing the baby or not killing her?

Without auxiliary arguments about what sample space we are drawing from, I don't see how you could possibly come to any kind of conclusion about this.

Comment author: staticIP 13 October 2012 12:24:07PM *  -2 points [-]

One of which is in a temporally advantaged position in which he can do anything you can do and do more in addition to that - a strictly superior position.

Sorry, explain to me how this hypothetical god-being can exceed my threat consistently? Presuming we are both from the same privileged outside-your-time perspective?