Douglas_Knight2 comments on Pascal's Mugging: Tiny Probabilities of Vast Utilities - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight2 22 October 2007 04:50:00AM 0 points [-]

Nick Tarleton,
Yes, it is probably correct that one should devote substantial resources to low probability events, but what are the odds that the universe is not only a simulation, but that the containing world is *much* bigger; and, if so, does the universe just not count, because it's so small? The bounded utility function probably reaches the opposite conclusion that only this universe counts, and maybe we should keep our ambitions limited, out of fear of attracting attention.