CarlShulman comments on Checklist of Rationality Habits - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CarlShulman 08 November 2012 01:29:03AM 0 points [-]

to keep the limits of the log argument in mind, log 50k is 10.8 and log (50k+70k) is 11.69 and log 1 billion is 20.7

Ln $100 is 4.6, at which point it's doubtful that you can survive.

Comment author: gwern 08 November 2012 03:17:40AM 0 points [-]

Ah, but suppose subsistence wages plummeted as in Hanson's em hell scenario? Ln $100 merely shows that 'the poor also smile' and the utility-maximizing thing is quadrillions of impoverished minds!

Comment author: CarlShulman 08 November 2012 05:11:29AM *  2 points [-]

If we continue to use Utility=ln($) then utilities go infinitely negative as you approach zero :).

Comment author: johnlawrenceaspden 09 November 2012 03:06:20PM 2 points [-]

Allowing us to refute the repugnant conclusion. Quadrillions of minds with $(1+e). We should start a campaign to use very large currency units in preparation for the Singularity.

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