Vladimir_Nesov comments on Open Thread June 2010, Part 3 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 21 June 2010 11:59:21AM *  4 points [-]

It's the same combinatorial explosion as with the future possible worlds. Even though you can't locate individual valuable future outcomes (through certain instrumental sequences of exact events), you can still make decisions about your actions leading to certain consequences "in bulk", and I expect the trade between possible worlds can be described similarly (after all, it does work on exactly the same decision-making algorithm). Thus, you usually won't know who are you trading with, exactly, but on the net estimate that your actions are in the right direction.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 17 May 2012 07:14:39PM 1 point [-]

Isn't the set of future worlds with high measure a lot smaller?

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 17 May 2012 08:40:07PM *  3 points [-]

I currently agree it's a bad analogy and I no longer endorse the position that global acausal trade is probably feasible, although its theoretical possibility seems to be a stable conclusion.