Question

A thought experiment involving a mugger who steals a wallet and promises to return it tomorrow demonstrates inconsistencies in trying to maximize the amount of this concept. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this concept, which names a “monster” imagined by Robert Nozick that acquires it more readily than everyone else to criticize one theory.
ANSWER: utility [accept utility monster; prompt on happiness and ask “what related term names that monster?”]
[10e] Nick Bostrom developed a thought experiment about maximizing utility titled “[this thinker]’s mugger.” One can maximize their expected utility by believing in God according to a “wager” named for this French thinker.
ANSWER: Blaise Pascal [accept Pascal’s mugger or Pascal’s wager]
[10h] This thought experiment, which has been criticized by Eliezer Yudkowsky, states a superintelligent AI should torture people who knew of it but didn’t help develop it to maximize its utility.
ANSWER: Roko’s basilisk [prompt on partial answer]
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