Stuart_Armstrong comments on Anthropic reasoning and correlated decision making - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 24 September 2009 08:13:42PM 0 points [-]

By the way, how would your application of CDP/SIA to the Absent-minded Driver problem take into account additional evidence fed to you about what intersection you're at? (Say, someone shows you something that amplifies the odds of being at X by a factor of [aka has a Bayes factor/likelihood ratio of] L.)

I think my extended set-up can deal with that, too - I'll write it up in a subsequent post.

Comment author: SilasBarta 24 September 2009 08:16:34PM 1 point [-]

Okay. Just so you know, I attacked that problem, though not with your method, and presented the solution here. You will probably need to read this to understand the variables.