satt comments on Advice for AI makers - Less Wrong

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Comment author: satt 30 June 2014 09:06:20PM *  1 point [-]

The first sentence seems obviously true to me, the second probably false.

My reasoning: to make observations and update on them, I must continue to exist. Hence I expect to make the same observations & updates whether or not the anthropic explanation is true (because I won't exist to observe and update on AI extinction if it occurs), so observing a "passing year without catastrophe" actually has a likelihood ratio of one, and is not Bayesian evidence for or against the anthropic explanation.