Bo102010 comments on Drawing Two Aces - Less Wrong

14 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 03 January 2010 10:33AM

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Comment author: whpearson 03 January 2010 06:19:11PM 0 points [-]

half the time you get one and half the time you get the other.

I don't get what your saying... see my probability tree diagram and tell me why you are weighting them differently?

Comment author: Bo102010 03 January 2010 08:47:12PM 2 points [-]

I don't understand what your tree is trying to show.

However, I think my explanation above shows why world's (1a) and (1b) are weighted less than (2) through (5) - they both come from parent world (1). If you gave (1a) and (1b) weight=1, you would be giving parent world 1 weight=2.