Ben123 comments on Pascal's Mugging: Tiny Probabilities of Vast Utilities - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Ben123 07 June 2012 05:52:41PM 1 point [-]

Is that a general solution? What about this: "Give me five dollars or I will perform an action, the disutility of which will be equal to twice that of you giving me five dollars, multiplied by the reciprocal of the probability of this statement being true."

Comment author: [deleted] 07 June 2012 06:54:22PM 1 point [-]

Well, I'd rather lose twenty dollars than be kicked in the groin very hard, and the probability of you succeeding in doing that given you being close enough to me and trying to do so is greater than 1/2, so...