timtyler comments on Torture vs. Dust vs. the Presumptuous Philosopher: Anthropic Reasoning in UDT - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 04 September 2009 07:50:07PM *  0 points [-]

The "Presumptuous Philosopher" thought experiment does not seem like a convincing argument against the Self-Indication Assumption to me. Rather, the Self-Indication Assumption seems pretty self-evident.

The philosopher doesn't get a Nobel prize - but it's not because she is wrong - it is because she is stating the obvious.