Good thought experiment! I replied in the form of another Yudkowsky vignette. :)
Summary: “Infinity” is a perfectly coherent Cheerful Price for, say, something sufficiently repugnant to you or something very unethical. (But also you must have a finite Cheerful Price for anything, no matter how bad, if the badness happens with sufficiently small probability.)
Ahh interesting, I replied with a potential counterexample to your attempted reconciliation, curious about your thoughts!
Good thought experiment! I replied in the form of another Yudkowsky vignette. :)
Summary: “Infinity” is a perfectly coherent Cheerful Price for, say, something sufficiently repugnant to you or something very unethical. (But also you must have a finite Cheerful Price for anything, no matter how bad, if the badness happens with sufficiently small probability.)