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

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 08 May 2010 01:01:04PM 0 points [-]

If reality gives you problems where you win by reasoning anthropically, but ordinary probability theory is not up to the job of facilitating, then invent UDT and use that instead.

The winning thing might be better than the probability thing, but it won't be a probability thing just because it's winning. Also, UDT weakly relies on the same framework of expected utility and probability spaces, defined exactly as I discuss them in the comments to this post.