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

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 04 September 2009 08:22:44PM 2 points [-]

Huh! This provides a surprisingly non-zero amount of justification for an intuition I thought was probably just me being stupid - namely my attempt to rescale my utilities as fractions of the total number of observers or integral of observer-moments inside a universe, for purposes of cross-universe comparison.