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Squark 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: Squark 29 July 2014 07:55:30PM 0 points [-]

I don't understand what you mean by "utility bound". A bounded utility function is just a function which takes values in a finite interval.

Comment author: [deleted] 30 July 2014 12:34:48PM -1 points [-]

Let me try rephrasing this a bit.

What if, depending on other circumstances(say the flip of a fair coin), your utility function can take values in either a finite(if heads) or infinite(if tails) interval?

Would that entire situation be bounded, unbounded, neither, or is my previous question ill posed?