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

-19 Post author: staticIP 13 October 2012 12:00AM

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Comment author: buybuydandavis 14 October 2012 02:26:04AM 0 points [-]

I think you're getting at an important problem, and have taken a step toward the solution.

How do we deal with choice in the face of fundamentally arbitrary assertions?

One way, at least, is to see if there is another equivalently arbitrary assertion that would lead you to make the opposite choice.