Strange7 comments on The Contrarian Status Catch-22 - Less Wrong

49 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 19 December 2009 10:40PM

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Comment author: Strange7 24 December 2010 12:23:46PM 0 points [-]

It doesn't take too many doublings of my utility function before a further double would require more entropy than is contained in this one.

Omega knows you'll draw a skull before you get that many doublings.

Comment author: wedrifid 24 December 2010 01:26:13PM 0 points [-]

Omega knows you'll draw a skull before you get that many doublings.

That would be a different problem. Either the participant is informed that the probability distribution in question has anthropic bias based on the gamemaster's limits or the gamemaster is not Omega-like.