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Mark_Friedenbach comments on Expected utility, unlosing agents, and Pascal's mugging - Less Wrong Discussion

19 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 28 July 2014 06:05PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 28 July 2014 07:00:56PM 0 points [-]

You don't need infinities for Pascal's mugging to work.

Comment author: Squark 28 July 2014 07:15:22PM 4 points [-]

With a bounded utility function U, you never pay the mugger X$ if the probability she is telling the truth is below X / (Umax - Umin).