ABSTRACT
According to Warren Quinn, a sequence of rational choices can lead a rational agent to self-torture. It is possible, for instance, to increase temperature or administer electric current or increase atmospheric pressure in some positive increment i such that a rational agent is indifferent between each pairwise option kni and k(n+1)i and strongly prefers the initial option to the last option in the sequence. If we let !> symbolize strong preference and | symbolize indifference, there is a possible sequence S from k0 to k such that for some increment i (i > 0), S = k0 | k i, k i | k2i , k2i | k3i, . . knL|k & k0 !> k.
