Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Less Wrong Q&A with Eliezer Yudkowsky: Video Answers - Less Wrong

41 Post author: MichaelGR 07 January 2010 04:40AM

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 08 January 2010 02:50:29AM 26 points [-]

In my posts, I've argued that indexical uncertainty like this shouldn't be represented using probabilities. Instead, I suggest that you consider yourself to be all of the many copies of you, i.e., both the ones in the ancestor simulations and the one in 2010, making decisions for all of them. Depending on your preferences, you might consider the consequences of the decisions of the copy in 2010 to be the most important and far-reaching, and therefore act mostly as if that was the only copy.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 18 February 2010 07:05:46AM 5 points [-]

BTW, I agree with this.