timtyler comments on The Anthropic Trilemma - Less Wrong

24 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 27 September 2009 01:47AM

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Comment author: timtyler 27 September 2009 06:01:12PM 0 points [-]

I see, I think. I can't help wondering what the merge procedure does with any flipped bits in the diff, though. Anyway, horn 2 now seems OK - I think it describes the situation.

Comment author: timtyler 25 November 2009 10:32:59PM -1 points [-]

Rereading the comments on this thread, the problem is more subtle than I had thought - and I had better retract the above comment. I am inclined towards the idea that copying doesn't really alter the pattern - but that kind of anthropic reasoning seems challenging to properly formalise under the given circumstances.