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Comment author: shminux 01 February 2013 06:28:42PM 0 points [-]

You're immortal. Tell Omega any real number r > 0, and he'll give you 1-r utility.

This problem is obviously isomorphic to the previous one under the transformation r=1/s and rescaling the utility: pick a number s > 0 and rescale the utility by s/(1-r), both are valid operations on utilities.

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