casebash comments on The Anthropic Trilemma - Less Wrong

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Comment author: casebash 16 April 2016 05:18:43AM 1 point [-]

"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.

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 18 April 2016 02:03:01PM 0 points [-]

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!