Manfred comments on St. Petersburg Mugging Implies You Have Bounded Utility

Manfred 8 Jun 2011 2:06 UTC
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Pascal’s mugging requires the victim to say what probability he assigns to the mugger being honest, and this one doesn’t

Ah, true, because your promise is infinite expected utility without actually saying “infinite utility,” which might put some people off.
- TimFreeman 8 Jun 2011 2:29 UTC
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  Ah, true, because your promise is infinite expected utility without actually saying “infinite utility,” which might put some people off.
  
  The point is that unbounded utility and infinite gambles lead to infinite utility, and infinite utility breaks the simplest version of the math. So putting people off is the purpose, but I meant for people to blame that on the unbounded utility, since I think that’s where the blame belongs.