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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 09 March 2015 11:42:32AM 3 points [-]

Maximizing [P(no TM) * C + P(TM) * u(TM, A))] is the same as maximizing u(A) under assumption TM.

Yes, that's a clear way of phrasing it.

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