thomblake 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: thomblake 04 October 2012 05:30:04PM 3 points [-]

My maths have errors a full 25% of the time until I've actually programmed or tested them somehow, for average math problems.

Don't worry, the chance of being wrong only costs you 3^^^3*.25 expected utilons, or so.

Comment author: DaFranker 04 October 2012 05:41:57PM 0 points [-]

Hah, that made me chuckle. I ought to remind myself to bust out the python interpreter and test this thing when I get home.