Threatening to infllict “infinite negative utility” is qualitateive rather than quantitative. You have not yet said how much you would inflict. Contrast with saying “I am going to inflict finite negative utility to you”.
If you know transfinite amounts it is possible ot make a threat of a infinite magnitude that is rational on expectation maximation grounds to reject as implausible. If you threaen me with omega negative utility but want only finite rewards if I think your plausibility is 1 per omega per omega I would still be losing infinitely by handing over the finite amount. While this makes the technical claim false it is in essence true. If the “ransom” is finite and the threat transfinite then the plausibily will need to be (sufficently) infinidecimal to be rejectable.
However there might be the door that infinidecimal doubt would be a different thing than a probabilty of 0. “Almost never” allows finite occurences while having 0 as the closest real approximator (any positive finite would be grossly inappropriate).
Threatening to infllict “infinite negative utility” is qualitateive rather than quantitative. You have not yet said how much you would inflict. Contrast with saying “I am going to inflict finite negative utility to you”.
If you know transfinite amounts it is possible ot make a threat of a infinite magnitude that is rational on expectation maximation grounds to reject as implausible. If you threaen me with omega negative utility but want only finite rewards if I think your plausibility is 1 per omega per omega I would still be losing infinitely by handing over the finite amount. While this makes the technical claim false it is in essence true. If the “ransom” is finite and the threat transfinite then the plausibily will need to be (sufficently) infinidecimal to be rejectable.
However there might be the door that infinidecimal doubt would be a different thing than a probabilty of 0. “Almost never” allows finite occurences while having 0 as the closest real approximator (any positive finite would be grossly inappropriate).