shokwave comments on Counterfactual Calculation and Observational Knowledge - Less Wrong

11 Post author: Vladimir_Nesov 31 January 2011 04:28PM

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Comment author: shokwave 01 February 2011 06:43:14AM 0 points [-]

It is no different, as far as I can tell. You can't go from the coin landed the same as it did in your world to only considering worlds where the coin is heads - which is the premise you need if you want to conclude that this is the 1% case of scanner going wrong.