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12 Post author: komponisto 10 December 2010 06:08AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 10 December 2010 10:12:14PM 1 point [-]

Without invoking complexity, one can say that an agent is immune to this form of Pascal's mugging if, for fixed I, the quantity P(x amount of utility | I) goes to zero as x grows.

If the agent's utility function is such that "x amount of utility" entails "f(x) amount of complexity," f(x) --> infinity, then this will hold for priors that are sensitive to complexity.