Does it even make sense to talk about “the chance to do X at no cost to Y?” Any action that an agent can perform, no matter how apparently unrelated, seems like it must have some miniscule influence on the probability of achieving every other goal that an agent might have (even if only by wasting time.) Normally, we can say it’s a negligible influence, but if Y’s utility is literally supposed to be infinite, it would dominate.
Does it even make sense to talk about “the chance to do X at no cost to Y?” Any action that an agent can perform, no matter how apparently unrelated, seems like it must have some miniscule influence on the probability of achieving every other goal that an agent might have (even if only by wasting time.) Normally, we can say it’s a negligible influence, but if Y’s utility is literally supposed to be infinite, it would dominate.