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Comment author: Logos01 22 October 2011 09:23:28PM 0 points [-]

You seem to be suggesting either that it's possible to make the OOPS scenario likelihood not just negligible, but zero.

Specific versions of "OOPS". I don't intend to categorize all of them that way.

Alternatively, you might be suggesting that the OOPS scenario is negligible, non-zero, and not worthy of attention, whereas the AIMS scenario is negligible, non-zero, and worthy of attention.

Well, no. It has more to do with the expected cost of failing to account for either variety at least in principle. An OOPS scenario being fulfilled means the end of potential and the cessation of gained utility. An AIMS scenario being fulfilled means the aversion of constantly negative utility. (We can drop the "solely" so long as the 'net' is kept.)

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