Christian_Szegedy 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: Christian_Szegedy 10 September 2009 06:00:51PM 0 points [-]

It's not about complexity, it is just expected total gain. Simply the second calculation of the OP.

I just argued, that the second calculation is right and that is what the agents should do in general. (unless they are completely egoistic for their special copies)