wnoise comments on Late Great Filter Is Not Bad News - Less Wrong

14 Post author: Wei_Dai 04 April 2010 04:17AM

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 04 April 2010 11:07:57PM 1 point [-]

If you wake up in the morning to learn that you got drunk last night, played the lottery, and won, then this is good news.

Why is that good news, when it also implies that in the vast majority of worlds/branches, you lost the lottery? It only makes sense if, after learning that you won, you no longer care about the other copies of you that lost, but I think that kind of mind design is simply irrational, because it leads to time inconsistency.

Comment author: wnoise 05 April 2010 02:41:06AM 4 points [-]

Whether these copies exist or not, and their measure could depend on details of the lotteries' implementation. If it's a classical lottery, all the (reasonable) quantum branches from the point you decided could have the same numbers.