taryneast comments on Pascal's Mugging: Tiny Probabilities of Vast Utilities - Less Wrong
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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.
next mugger? There's a distinctly high probability that this mugger will return with higher blackmail demands.