Oscar_Cunningham comments on The Empty White Room: Surreal Utilities - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Oscar_Cunningham 24 July 2013 07:25:40AM *  2 points [-]

Vector valued utility functions violate the VNM axiom of continuity, but who cares.

Surreal valued ones do too. Violating the VNM axiom of continuity is the whole point of the exercise. We don't want a secular value to be worth any non-zero probability of a sacred value, but we do want it to be better than nothing.