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 05 September 2009 07:11:32PM 1 point [-]

That's just a way the universe could turn out to be bigger, not the only way.

Comment author: Technologos 06 September 2009 05:19:17AM 0 points [-]

Indeed. I just was suggesting that, insofar as we have no evidence of the massive number of observers under SIA, we would have to invent rather unsupported models of the world in order to implement it.