Wei_Dai comments on The Anthropic Trilemma - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: Johnicholas 28 September 2009 01:53:35AM 0 points [-]

I think the paper starts from the empirical existence of Born rule "weights" and attempts to explain in what sense they should be treated, decision-theoretically, as classical probabilities (since in the MWI sense, everything that might happen does happen) - but I admit I didn't grok the mathematics either.