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Sewing-Machine comments on A Thought on Pascal's Mugging - Less Wrong Discussion

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

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Comment author: [deleted] 13 December 2010 12:06:33AM *  1 point [-]

If your utility function is not bounded (below), then there is no "worst thing that could happen."

Comment author: jsteinhardt 13 December 2010 01:39:46AM 0 points [-]

See my reply to komponisto in the comment above.