Mallah comments on Avoiding doomsday: a "proof" of the self-indication assumption - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Mallah 15 April 2010 08:39:59PM *  0 points [-]

No, it shouldn't - that's the point. Why would you think it should?

Note that I am already taking observer-counting into account - among observers that actually exist in each coin-outcome-scenario. Hence the fact that P(heads) approaches 1/3 in the many-shot case.