taryneast comments on Pascal's Mugging: Tiny Probabilities of Vast Utilities - Less Wrong

39 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 19 October 2007 11:37PM

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Comment author: steven 23 October 2007 01:22:00AM 2 points [-]

Don't dollars have an infinite expected value (in human lives or utility) anyway, especially if you take into account weird low-probability scenarios? Maybe the next mugger will make even bigger threats.

Comment author: taryneast 31 December 2010 05:09:42PM 2 points [-]

next mugger? There's a distinctly high probability that this mugger will return with higher blackmail demands.