Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Outlawing Anthropics: An Updateless Dilemma - Less Wrong

26 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 08 September 2009 06:31PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 09 September 2009 12:28:30AM 0 points [-]

The problem is that we aren't asking one randomly selected person, we're asking all of the green ones (they have to agree unanimously for the Yes vote to go through).

Comment author: Dagon 09 September 2009 03:16:34PM 0 points [-]

Ah, I see. You're asking all the green ones, but only paying each pod once. This feels like reverse-weighting the payout, so it should still be -EV even after waking up, but I haven't quite worked out a way to include that in the numbers...