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

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Comment author: VoiceOfRa 08 October 2015 02:56:42AM *  1 point [-]

FInite approximations to the St. Petersburg lottery have unbounded values. The sequence does not converge to a limit.

They have unbounded expected values, that doesn't mean the St. Petersburg lottery can't exist, only that its expected value doesn't.