CarlShulman comments on Contrived infinite-torture scenarios: July 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: cousin_it 25 July 2010 10:38:49AM *  3 points [-]

Whoa. That's gotta be the most interesting comment I read on LW ever. Did you just give an evolutionary explanation for the concept of probability? If Eliezer's ideas are madness, yours are ultimate madness. It does sound like it can be correct, though.

But I don't see how it answers my question. Are you claiming I have no chance of ending up in a rescue sim because I don't care about it? Then can I start caring about it somehow? Because it sounds like a good idea.

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 25 July 2010 10:57:29AM *  1 point [-]

I don't believe that anticipated experience in natural situations as an accidental (specific to human psychology) way for eliciting prior was previously discussed, though general epistemic uselessness of observations for artificial agents is certainly an old idea.