orthonormal comments on The Anthropic Trilemma - Less Wrong

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Comment author: orthonormal 30 September 2009 11:13:43PM 1 point [-]

For example, you have to assume that Copy 1 can inspect Copy 2's source code.

It would suffice, instead, to have strong evidence that the copying process is trustworthy; in the limit as the evidence approaches certainty, the more adaptive instinct would approach indifference between the cases.