rwallace comments on Ingredients of Timeless Decision Theory - Less Wrong

43 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 19 August 2009 01:10AM

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Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 19 August 2009 05:10:06PM 5 points [-]

Does this theory handle Drescher's example of raising my hand because I want the universe a billion years ago to be such that I would raise my hand a billion years hence?

Comment author: rwallace 19 August 2009 07:22:15PM 0 points [-]

Is there a formulation of this example that isn't purely metaphysical, i.e. where you could actually detect the difference?