Pascal's Mugging: Tiny Probabilities of Vast Utilities — LessWrong

The most common formalizations of Occam's Razor, Solomonoff induction and Minimum Description Length, measure the program size of a computation used…

x Pascal's Mugging: Tiny Probabilities of Vast Utilities — LessWrong Pascal's Mugging Infinities In Ethics Solomonoff induction Decision theory Paradoxes Utility Functions Frontpage 125 Pascal's Mugging: Tiny Probabilities of Vast Utilities by Eliezer Yudkowsky 19th Oct 2007 5 min read 355 125 The most common formalizations of Occam's Razor , Solomonoff induction and Minimum Description Length, measure the program size of a computation used in a hypothesis, but don't measure the running time or space requirements of the computation. What if this makes a mind vulnerable to finite forms of Pasca

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