DanielLC comments on The Anthropic Trilemma - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DanielLC 17 February 2011 04:57:02PM 2 points [-]

I don't think you have the third horn quite right. It's not that you're equally likely to wake up as Brittany Spears. It's that the only meaningful idea of "you" exists only right now. Your subjective anticipation of winning the lottery in five minutes should be zero. You clearly aren't winning the lottery or in five minutes.

Also, isn't that more of a quintlemma?