DanielLC comments on Open thread, Aug. 03 - Aug. 09, 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DanielLC 04 August 2015 05:55:00PM 0 points [-]

There are various ways to get infinite and infinitesimal utility. But they don't matter in practice. Everything but the most infinite potential producer of utility will only matter as a tie breaker, which will occur with probability zero.

Cardinal numbers also wouldn't work well even as infinite numbers go. You can't have a set with half an element, or with a negative number of elements. And is there a difference between a 50% chance of uncountable utilons and a 100% chance?