That seems pretty arbitrary. You can make the mugging go away by simply penalizing his promise of n utils with a probability of 1/n (or less); but just making him go away is not a justification for such a procedure—what if you live in a universe where a eccentric god will give you that many utilons if you win his cosmic lottery?
That seems pretty arbitrary. You can make the mugging go away by simply penalizing his promise of n utils with a probability of 1/n (or less); but just making him go away is not a justification for such a procedure—what if you live in a universe where a eccentric god will give you that many utilons if you win his cosmic lottery?