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Will_Newsome comments on Pascal's Mugging as an epistemic problem - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Will_Newsome 06 October 2010 05:12:27AM 0 points [-]

I'm interpreting your stance as "the probability that your hypothesis matches the evidence is bounded by the utility it would give you if your hypothesis matched the evidence." Reductio ad absurdum: I am conscious. Tautologically true. Being conscious is to me worth a ton of utility. I should therefore disbelieve a tautology.