rwallace comments on Poll: What value extra copies? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: rwallace 24 June 2010 02:45:35AM *  2 points [-]

Well, not exactly; I'm saying Solomonoff induction has implications for what degree of reality (weight, subjective probability, magnitude, measure, etc.) we should assign certain worlds (interpretations, patterns, universes, possibilities, etc.).

Utility is a different matter. You are perfectly free to have a utility function that assigns Ackermann(4,4) units of disutility to each penguin that exists in a particular universe, whereupon the absence of penguins will presumably outweigh all other desiderata. I might feel this utility function is unreasonable, but I can't claim it to be inconsistent.