Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on The "Intuitions" Behind "Utilitarianism" - Less Wrong

29 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 28 January 2008 04:29PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 May 2013 01:48:44AM 1 point [-]

Yeah, if we're going to bastardize the terms anyway, we should definitely distinguish Pascal's Spamming from Pascal's Mugging, where Spamming is any Mugging of a type that has a thousand easily generated variants without loss of plausibility ('plausibility' to a reasonable non-troll not committing the noncentral fallacy). (For emotional purposes, not decision-theory purposes.)