Why? Is “threat” a particularly “natural” category?
From my perspective, Pascal’s mugging is simply an argument showing that a human-friendly utility function should have a certain property, not a special class of problem to be solved.
Hah. Well, we can apply my exact same argument with different words to show why I agree with you:
But I think that a decision theory is better (better fulfills desiterata of universality, simplicity, etc. etc.) if it treats threats with the same method it uses for other decision problems.
Why? Is “threat” a particularly “natural” category?
From my perspective, Pascal’s mugging is simply an argument showing that a human-friendly utility function should have a certain property, not a special class of problem to be solved.
Hah. Well, we can apply my exact same argument with different words to show why I agree with you: