Stuart_Armstrong comments on Anthropic reasoning and correlated decision making - Less Wrong
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Thanks, error corrected (I mixed up p with 1-p).
Because the number of individuals is exactly two - in that you have a certain probability of being either individuals. The second may not exist, but the probability of being the second is non-zero.
But I admit this is not fully rigorous; more examples are needed.
I believe it can be formalized sufficiently; so far, no seeming paradox I've met has failed to fall eventually to these types of reasonings. However, more work needs to be done; in particular, one puzzle: why does the CDP for the absent-minded driver give you total expectation, while for Eliezer's problem it gives you individual expectation?