cousin_it comments on Another attempt to explain UDT - Less Wrong

35 Post author: cousin_it 14 November 2010 04:52PM

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Comment author: NihilCredo 14 November 2010 05:25:57PM *  1 point [-]

Wait, you said:

Until you learn which it is, you think it's both. You're all your copies at once.

But in the CM example, you did learn which it is. I am confused.

Comment author: cousin_it 14 November 2010 05:35:37PM *  1 point [-]

The CM example contains two "logical consequences" of your current state - two places that logically depend on your current decision, and so are "glued together" decision-theoretically - but the other "consequence" is not the you in heads-universe, which is occupying a different information state. It's whatever determines Omega's decision whether to give you money in heads-universe. It may be a simulation of you in tails-universe, or any other computation that provably returns the same answer, UDT doesn't care.