SforSingularity comments on Forcing Anthropics: Boltzmann Brains - Less Wrong

17 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 07 September 2009 07:02PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (59)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: SforSingularity 08 September 2009 02:59:57PM *  0 points [-]

I agree with Steve; we have to take a step back and ask not for probabilities but for decision algorithms that aim to achieve certain goals, then it all makes sense; it has to - based upon materialism, whatever definition of "you" you try to settle upon, "you" is some set of physical objects that behave according to a certain decision algorithm, and given the decision algorithm, "you" will have a well-defined expected future reward.