khafra comments on Shock Level 5: Big Worlds and Modal Realism - Less Wrong

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Comment author: khafra 26 May 2010 02:58:37PM 0 points [-]

Should it? It appears to me that efforts toward saving the world, if successful, only raise the odds that the branch you personally experience will include a saved world.

Comment author: MichaelVassar 28 May 2010 04:39:37PM 3 points [-]

Or from a different perspective your decision algorithm partially determines the optimization target for the updateless game-theoretical compromise that emerges around that algorithm.

Comment author: khafra 28 May 2010 05:26:42PM 0 points [-]

That's certainly a useful view of the ambiguity inherent in decision theory in MWI. Or it would be, if I had a local group to help me get a deep understanding of UDT--the Tampa chapter of the Bayesian Conspiracy has lain in abeyance since your visit.