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

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Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 08 February 2009 02:50:00AM 0 points [-]

One idea is to tell the AI not to expend a portion of its resources greater than the chance of the mugger's statement being true.