[Foundation-l] GFDL and relicensing

Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton at gmail.com
Fri Nov 23 15:59:48 UTC 2007


> Losing all your money is not infinitely bad.  Losing £101 would be
> worse.  And even if that weren't true, I don't think you're using
> "infinitely" in any standard sense of the term.  About the only result
> I could see *arguably* being "infinitely" bad would be losing your
> life, but even then for most people there are things they value more
> than their life, and the situations we're currently discussing don't
> involve loss of life anyway.

It's all a matter of definition. You can define your values to be
anything you like - the maths behind game theory doesn't care. For
example, you could define the value of money logarithmically, then the
difference between 100 and 0 is infinite.


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