endoself comments on Testing lords over foolish lords: gaming Pascal's mugging - Less Wrong
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Interesting problem, thanks! I personally felt that there could be a good case made for insisting your utility be bounded, and that paper's an argument in that direction.
Pascal's mugging is less of a problem if your utility function is bounded, and it completely goes away if the bound is reasonably low, since then there just isn't any amount of utility that would outweight the improbability of the mugger being truthful.