jsteinhardt comments on Pascal's Mugging for bounded utility functions - Less Wrong

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Comment author: jsteinhardt 07 December 2012 03:36:28PM *  0 points [-]

The solution is that a loss of five dollars only incurs a loss of Epsilon utils in this situation, so you will indeed pay up if you do the expected utility calculation (although I'm not sure I agree that you would want to).