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Pentashagon comments on The Doubling Box - Less Wrong Discussion

13 Post author: Mestroyer 06 August 2012 05:50AM

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Comment author: Pentashagon 06 August 2012 06:37:26PM 3 points [-]

How exactly do the constant utilons in the box compensate me for how I feel the day after I open the box (I could have doubled my current utility!)? The second day after (I could have quadrupled my current utility!!)? The Nth day after (FFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUU!!!)? I'm afraid the box will rewrite me with a simple routine that says "I have 2^(day-I-opened-the-box - 1) utility! Yay!"