RichardKennaway comments on Tendencies in reflective equilibrium - LessWrong

27 Post author: Yvain 20 July 2011 10:38AM

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Comment author: Alexei 20 July 2011 08:31:06PM *  -1 points [-]

This has been gone over before and the result is that you should give the $5 dollars, because 3^^^3 is just a ridiculously huge number.

EDIT: What I meant to say was completely opposite to what I said. You should not give the $5 dollars, even though 3^^^3 is just a ridiculously huge number.

Comment author: RichardKennaway 21 July 2011 08:35:24AM 1 point [-]

The result of certain decision theories is to say that. That is a problem with those theories. That it is a problem, is the gist of the posting you cited.