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KPier comments on Is Omega Impossible? Can we even ask? - Less Wrong Discussion

-8 Post author: mwengler 24 October 2012 02:47PM

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Comment author: KPier 24 October 2012 11:29:48PM 0 points [-]

... and if your utility scales linearly with money up to $1,001,000, right?

Comment author: thomblake 25 October 2012 02:13:14PM 0 points [-]

Yes, that sort of thing was addressed in the parenthetical in the grandparent. It doesn't specifically have to scale linearly.

Comment author: prase 25 October 2012 05:12:10AM 0 points [-]

Or if the payoffs are reduced to fall within the (approximately) linear region.

Comment author: [deleted] 25 October 2012 08:51:48AM 3 points [-]

But if they are too low (say, $1.00 and $0.01) I might do things other than what gets me more money Just For The Hell Of It.

Comment author: faul_sname 25 October 2012 05:31:19PM 4 points [-]

And thus was the first zero-boxer born.

Comment author: [deleted] 25 October 2012 06:10:33PM 2 points [-]

Zero-boxer: "Fuck you, Omega. I won't be your puppet!"

Omega: "Keikaku doori..."

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