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Manfred comments on Strongmanning Pascal's Mugging - Less Wrong Discussion

1 Post author: Pentashagon 20 February 2013 12:36PM

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Comment author: Manfred 21 February 2013 01:37:40AM 1 point [-]

In one, utility approaches an upper bound, in the other, it grows without bound.

Comment author: [deleted] 21 February 2013 02:03:47PM 0 points [-]

Thank you for thinking of that! While they do have similarities, as you point out, they clearly do also have at least one significant difference.