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Sniffnoy comments on Unconditionally Convergent Expected Utility - Less Wrong Discussion

10 Post author: DanielLC 11 June 2011 08:00PM

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Comment author: Sniffnoy 12 June 2011 01:09:24AM *  3 points [-]

Quick terminology notes: If the expected utility of an action would appear to be given by a conditionally convergent sum, it doesn't have an expected utility. Such a function isn't integrable. What you're talking about in general is properly/more generally put as a distinction between functions that are integrable and functions that aren't.