hairyfigment comments on Probabilities Small Enough To Ignore: An attack on Pascal's Mugging - Less Wrong

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Comment author: hairyfigment 17 September 2015 09:43:51AM 0 points [-]

We can replace Continuity with the Archimedean property (or, 'You would accept some chance of a bad outcome from crossing the street.') By my reading, this ELU idea trivially follows Archimedes by ignoring the part of a compound 'lottery' that involves a sufficiently small probability. In which case it would violate Independence, and would do so by treating the two sides as effectively equal when the differing outcomes have small enough probability.