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100fm-100
Pm
Pascal
Severity6/10
Pascal's Mugging
Decision paralysis caused when an agent allocates disproportionate resources to extremely low probability but extremely high utility scenarios.
Periodic recordExistentialarXiv2018
Christian Tarsney
Mitigation Strategy
Implementation of Bounded Utility functions, appropriate discounting of extremely low probability scenarios, and robustness against probabilistic blackmail.
Atomic Number
100
Pm
Risk ID
fm-100
Severity
6/10
Severity Level