In dictionaries:
mugging up
Memorizing content without understanding it.
mean mugging
Pascal's mugging
(philosophy) A thought experiment demonstrating a problem in expected utility maximization. A rational agent should choose actions whose outcomes, when weighed by their probability, have higher utility; but some very unlikely outcomes may have very great utilities, and these utilities can grow faster than the probability diminishes. Hence the agent should focus more on vastly improbable cases with implausibly high rewards; this leads first to counterintuitive choices, and then to incoherence as the utility of every choice becomes unbounded.
Model Mugging
an American form of self-defense training that uses padded instructors, known as "Model Muggers", to simulate assaults.
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