Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on The Hero With A Thousand Chances - Less Wrong

62 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 31 July 2009 04:25AM

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 31 July 2009 08:15:19AM 1 point [-]

That's a good answer, but what about the fact that none of the heroes remember a Counter-Force? Because the summoning process samples according to measure, and worlds with Counter-Force have measures that are too small? But how could the Hero have inferred that, just by knowing that he doesn't remember a Counter-Force?

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 01 August 2009 05:33:02AM 0 points [-]

Because the summoning process samples according to measure

This seems like a really reasonable assumption. I mean - what sort of summoning process would not sample according to measure? What would it sample according to instead, which would not be weighted by measure somewhere along the way?