neq1 comments on Beauty quips, "I'd shut up and multiply!" - Less Wrong

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Comment author: neq1 12 May 2010 10:28:20PM 0 points [-]

If you are the person that was selected beforehand to be revived in the event of heads, then I agree with 1/11. Unfortunately, in variation beta we lose the ability to label someone ahead of time. This changes things.

Comment author: AlephNeil 13 May 2010 03:11:13AM 1 point [-]

No it doesn't. Your clones are subjectively indistinguishable from you, but they're all in different places at least. Perhaps they're in rooms labelled 1-10, but not allowed to go outside and look at the number. So the experimenters can toss a D10 and randomly choose a subject without breaking the 'clone condition'.