Roko comments on Beauty quips, "I'd shut up and multiply!" - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_M 07 May 2010 08:02:52PM 2 points [-]

I have a question for those more familiar with the discussions surrounding this problem: is there anything really relevant about the sleeping/waking/amnesia story here? What if instead the experimenter just went out and asked the next random passerby on the street each time?

It seems to me that the problem could be formulated less confusingly that way. Am I missing something?

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Comment author: Vladimir_M 08 May 2010 07:32:35PM 0 points [-]

I'm not sure I understand your "really extreme" formulation fully. Is the amnesia supposed to make the wins in chocolate bars non-cumulative?