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20 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 16 September 2015 10:45AM

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Comment author: V_V 19 September 2015 11:29:03AM 0 points [-]

If you do that, you won't lower the probability enough to defeat the mugging.

If you do that, your decision system just breaks down, since the expectation over arbitrary integers with probabilities computer by Solomonoff induction is undefined. That's the reason why AIXI uses bounded rewards.