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

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Comment author: Psy-Kosh 10 September 2009 03:16:30AM 3 points [-]

The difference wasn't marble vs room but "copies of one being, so number of beings changed" vs "just gather 20 rationalists..."

But my whole point was "the original wasn't really an anthropic situation, let me construct this alternate yet equivalent version to make that clear"

Comment author: CarlShulman 10 September 2009 06:05:59AM 1 point [-]

Do you think that the Sleeping Beauty problem is an anthropic one?

Comment author: Psy-Kosh 11 September 2009 06:00:15AM 0 points [-]

It probably counts as an instance of the general class of problems one would think of as an "anthropic problem".