Luke_Grecki comments on Counterfactual Mugging - Less Wrong

52 Post author: Vladimir_Nesov 19 March 2009 06:08AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (257)

Sort By: Leading

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: [deleted] 08 October 2010 04:26:20AM 1 point [-]

If I found myself in this kind of scenario then it would imply that I was very wrong about how I reason about anthropics in an ensemble universe (as with Pascal's mugging or any sort of situation where an agent has enough computing power to take control of that much of my measure such that I find myself in a contrived philosophical experiment).

I see some reasons for this perspective but I'm not sure.

On the one hand, I don't know much about the distribution of agent preferences in an ensemble universe. But there may be enough long towers of nested simulations of agents like us to compensate for this.