casebash comments on The Anthropic Trilemma - Less Wrong
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"You (and your copies) are not deriving utility from winning the lottery, but from spending the money"
I would say that you derive utility from knowing that you've won money you can spend. But, if you only get $1, you haven't won very much.
I think that a better problem would be if you split if your favourite team won the super bowl. Then you'd have a high probability of experiencing this happiness, and the number of copies wouldn't reduce it.
Neat!