Wei_Dai comments on Subjective anticipation as a decision process - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 10 February 2011 06:09:56PM 0 points [-]

If you resurrect them and include them in the poll, and assuming you average their observed frequencies, don't you still get F(A)=1? As I said, I'm not sure what you mean by "limiting frequency", but I don't see how you can get something other than F(A)=1 in my example.

Comment author: cousin_it 10 February 2011 06:22:22PM *  0 points [-]

Averaging observed frequencies sounds weird...

If I count all observer-moments that get told their labels, the fraction of observer-moments that get told A is 1/3. If each observer has a fixed amount of "reality fluid" that gets split in equal parts when copies are made and disappears when copies die, the total fraction of "reality fluid" in observer-moments that get told A is also 1/3, but by a different calculation. Maybe both these methods of counting are wrong, but the answer 1 is still far from certain.