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Grognor comments on Irrationality Game II - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Grognor 14 July 2012 03:09:33AM *  0 points [-]

Irrationality game comment

The correct way to handle Pascal's Mugging and other utilitarian mathematical difficulties is to use a bounded utility function. I'm very metauncertain about this; my actual probability could be anywhere from 10% to 90%. But I guess that my probability is 70% or so.