What are they, out of curiosity ? I think I missed that part of the Sequences...
It’s not in the main Sequences, it’s in the various posts on decision theory and Pascal’s Muggings. I hope our resident decision theory experts will correct me if I’m wrong, but my understanding is this. If an agent is of the type that gives into Pascal’s Mugging, then other agents who know that have an incentive to mug them. If all potential muggers know that they’ll get no concessions from an agent, they have no incentive to mug them. I don’t think this covers “Pascal’s Gift” scenarios where an agent is offered a tiny probability of a large positive utility, but it covers scenarios involving a small chance of a large disutility.
It’s not in the main Sequences, it’s in the various posts on decision theory and Pascal’s Muggings. I hope our resident decision theory experts will correct me if I’m wrong, but my understanding is this. If an agent is of the type that gives into Pascal’s Mugging, then other agents who know that have an incentive to mug them. If all potential muggers know that they’ll get no concessions from an agent, they have no incentive to mug them. I don’t think this covers “Pascal’s Gift” scenarios where an agent is offered a tiny probability of a large positive utility, but it covers scenarios involving a small chance of a large disutility.