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Stuart_Armstrong comments on Probabilities Small Enough To Ignore: An attack on Pascal's Mugging - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 16 September 2015 07:25:22PM 2 points [-]

I think this simplifies. Not sure, but here's the reasoning:

L (or expected L) is a consequence of S, so not an independent parameter. If R=1, then is this median maximalisation?http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/mqa/median_utility_rather_than_mean/ it feels close to that, anyway.

I'll think some more...