PhilGoetz comments on A note on the description complexity of physical theories - Less Wrong

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 12 November 2010 03:54:56AM 0 points [-]

Isn't that like saying "Under MWI, the observation that the coin came up heads, and the observation that it came up tails, both have probability of 1"?

I have no theories about what you're thinking when you say that.

Comment author: humpolec 12 November 2010 06:32:19AM 0 points [-]

Either you condition the observation (of surviving 1000 attempts) on the observer existing, and you have 1 in both cases, or you don't condition it on the observer and you have p^-1000 in both cases. You can't have it both ways.