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

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Comment author: Houshalter 17 September 2015 05:27:05AM 2 points [-]

That's fine. You can just follow your intuition, and that usually won't lead you too wrong. Usually. However the issue here is programming an AI which doesn't share our intuitions. We need to actually formalize our intuitions to get it to behave as we would.

Comment author: IlyaShpitser 17 September 2015 01:30:04PM 1 point [-]

What criterion do you use to rule out solutions?