Nebu comments on The Number Choosing Game: Against the existence of perfect theoretical rationality - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Nebu 24 January 2016 10:44:33PM * 0 points [-]

I guess I'm asking "Why would a finite-universe necessarily dictate a finite utility score?"

In other words, why can't my utility function be:

0 if you give me the entire universe minus all the ice cream.
1 if you give me the entire universe minus all the chocolate ice cream.
infinity if I get chocolate ice cream, regardless of how much chocolate ice cream I receive, and regardless of whether the rest of the universe is included with it.